George Burns: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
Desmond Tutu: “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Walt Disney: “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Mother Teresa: “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Barbara Bush: “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent.”
Lee Iacocca: “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
Jane Howard: “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Richard Bach: “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe: “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Judy Blume: “Our finger-prints don’t fade from the lives we’ve touched.”
Reed Markham: “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
George Bernard Shaw: “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
Eva Burrows: “The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Richard L. Evans: “The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
Mario Puzo: “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.: “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
Jan Hatmaker: “Family is a gift that lasts forever.”
Robert Brault: “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
Lee Iacocca: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Mignon McLaughlin: “In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
Ed Cunningham: “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Richard Bach: “The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.”
Unknown: “Family is where life begins and love never ends.”
Michael J. Fox: “Family is not just an important thing. It’s everything.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley: “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
John Wooden: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Oscar Wilde: “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
Joseph Addison: “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”
Lee Iacocca: “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
Lilo and Stitch (Disney movie): “Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
Jane Howard: “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Margaret Mead: “We are the products of our culture. The family unit is the first unit of culture.”
Mitch Albom: “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
Pam Brown: “Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.”
Barbara Johnson: “To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
Toni Morrison: “You are your best thing.”
Jim Butcher: “The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.”
Ruth E. Renkel: “Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.”
G.K. Chesterton: “The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
George Eliot: “What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel: “The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants.”
Princess Diana: “Family is the most important thing in the world.”
Irish Proverb: “A family of Irish birth will argue and fight, but let a shout come from without, and see them all unite.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Susan Lieberman: “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Wes Fessler: “Family is family.”
Elizabeth Gilbert: “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
Richard Pryor: “I am not a perfect mother and I will never be. You are not a perfect daughter, and you will never be. But put us together, and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be.”
Meryl Streep: “The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself in the most vivid possible way you can.”
Peter Buffett: “Only love is so potent.”
Richard Wilkins: “Family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
Jane Howard: “Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
George Moore: “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Vladimir Putin: “Without family, people cannot find their way in this world.”
Najwa Zebian: “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”
Louisa May Alcott: “Love is a great beautifier.”
Bill Cosby: “In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck—and, of course, courage.”
Pope John Paul II: “The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort, and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
Pam Brown: “Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.”
Albert Schweitzer: “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has caused a number of people to rekindle their light.”
Ruth E. Renkel: “Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
Don Marquis: “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
Don Meyer: “There is no such thing as a ‘broken family.’ Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.”
Amit Ray: “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Napoleon Bonaparte: “The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.”
C.S. Lewis: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Unknown: “Family is where life begins and love never ends.”
Barbara Johnson: “To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
Toni Morrison: “You are your best thing.”
Jim Butcher: “The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.”
G.K. Chesterton: “The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
Mitch Albom: “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley: “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
John Wooden: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Oscar Wilde: “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
Joseph Addison: “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”
Lee Iacocca: “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.”
Robert Brault: “The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.”
Harriet Morgan: “Family is like music; some high notes, some low notes, but always a beautiful song.”
Fulvio Rinaldi: “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Ruth E. Renkel: “Sometimes our hearts are so big that they hurt.”
Judy Blume: “Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we’ve touched.”
Richard Bach: “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
Richard Bach: “The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that, that is the most important gift we have. We understand that when we are in the room with someone who is dying. When we understand that, that is a great gift, then we can understand that all the other stuff we put before it is really quite small.”
Margaret Laurence: “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”
Rumi: “Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
Richard Bach: “We teach best what we most need to learn.”
Michael J. Fox: “Family is not just an important thing. It’s everything.”
Sarah Dessen: “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Anthony Brandt: “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
Lee Iacocca: “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Pamela Dugdale: “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”
Iyanla Vanzant: “Family is the thing that is most important. It’s worth more than anything money can buy.”
Mother Teresa: “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
Walt Disney: “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Desmond Tutu: “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
David Ogden Stiers: “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
Nina Simone: “You can’t help but be changed when you have a child.”
Irish Proverb: “A family makes a house a home.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.: “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
George A. Moore: “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Richard L. Evans: “The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
Marlo Thomas: “Family is not just an important thing, it’s everything.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu: “A family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Henry Ward Beecher: “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Jenna Morasca: “A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”
Theresa Caputo: “No matter where we are in the world, we will always be together in our hearts.”
J.K. Rowling: “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”
Elbert Hubbard: “Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
Paulo Coelho: “The parents exist to teach the child, but also they learn what the child has to teach them.”
Riley Keough: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Candace Bushnell: “Maybe what people call love is just a chemical reaction that compels people to breed.”
Rebecca Eanes: “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
George Burns: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
Susan Gale: “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
Michelle Obama: “We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.”
Eva Burrows: “The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Dodie Smith: “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
Richard Bach: “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
Barbara Johnson: “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”
Marjorie Hinckley: “I don’t know how it is, but when the mother is in charge, it just works. Even if I am doing something, if the children ask me for help or something, it’s just right. When I ask them, I know it’s going to happen and it happens, it just clicks. It’s magic.”
Taya Kyle: “A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
African Proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Sue Atkins: “The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.”
Marian Wright Edelman: “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
Buddha: “A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.”
Augusten Burroughs: “You are the one person who can make it happen for yourself. Nobody else can help you.”
Unknown: “Family: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.”
Pope John XXIII: “Family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Zoe Kazan: “The first thing I ever wanted to be was a singer.”
Philo: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Angelina Jolie: “The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.”
Evelyn Hendrickson: “I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock, or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.'”
Marianne Williamson: “You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”
Anais Nin: “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Gloria Naylor: “One should never impose one’s views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.”
Confucius: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Walter Winchell: “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Virginia Woolf: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
Elizabeth Stone: “Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Gail Sheehy: “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
E. O. Wilson: “The love of one’s family is life’s greatest blessing.”
Don Meyer: “There is no such thing as a ‘broken
Robert Frost: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
John Buchan: “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.”
Sarah Jessica Parker: “Family is not who’s blood. It’s who you love and who loves you.”
Dodie Smith: “I am thinking of the days when our life was a wonderful discovery.”
Khalil Gibran: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”
Richard G. Scott: “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Irish Proverb: “A family makes a house a home.”
Sarah Dessen: “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Margaret Laurence: “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”
Elizabeth Gilbert: “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
Joseph Addison: “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”
Lilo and Stitch (Disney movie): “Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
George Moore: “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Reed Markham: “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
Bill Cosby: “In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck—and, of course, courage.”
Pamela Dugdale: “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”
Mignon McLaughlin: “In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
Jane Howard: “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Princess Diana: “Family is the most important thing in the world.”
Amit Ray: “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Barbara Johnson: “To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
Toni Morrison: “You are your best thing.”
Jim Butcher: “The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.”
G.K. Chesterton: “The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
Mitch Albom: “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley: “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
John Wooden: “The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Oscar Wilde: “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
Lee Iacocca: “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.”
Robert Brault: “The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.”
Harriet Morgan: “Family is like music; some high notes, some low notes, but always a beautiful song.”
Fulvio Rinaldi: “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Ruth E. Renkel: “Sometimes our hearts are so big that they hurt.”
Judy Blume: “Our finger-prints don’t fade from the lives we’ve touched.”
Richard Bach: “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
Richard Bach: “The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that, that is the most important gift we have. We understand that when we are in the room with someone who is dying. When we understand that, that is a great gift, then we can understand that all the other stuff we put before it is really quite small.”
Margaret Laurence: “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”
Rumi: “Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
Richard Bach: “We teach best what we most need to learn.”
Michael J. Fox: “Family is not just an important thing. It’s everything.”
Sarah Dessen: “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Anthony Brandt: “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
Lee Iacocca: “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Pamela Dugdale: “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”
Iyanla Vanzant: “Family is the thing that is most important. It’s worth more than anything money can buy.”
Mother Teresa: “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Walt Disney: “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
Desmond Tutu: “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
