Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
—P.J. O'Rourke
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
—Charles Kuralt
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
—Charles Kuralt
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
—Evan Esar
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
—Jerry Seinfeld
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
—Cassia Leo in Unmasked
I'll bet you one thing, if the man had to have the first baby there wouldn't be but two in the family. Yes sir, let him have the first one and the woman have the next one, and his time wouldn't come around no more.
—Josephine Riley Matthews
I gathered my shoes and wallet on the other side of the metal detector and took a last glance at my father, who was still there, still waving.That mangled finger had always been a symbol of his shortcomings and deformities to me, but now I saw it was also a testament to all that he'd sacrificed for our family.He'd lost that trigger finger building the business that had fed and clothed me. I imagined he was not only waving me goodbye but waving me forward with that symbol of his own woundedness.
—Shozan Jack Haubner
I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.
—Katharine Butler Hathaway
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
—Rodney Dangerfield
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
—George Bernard Shaw
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
—Erma Bombeck
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
—Joseph Brodsky
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
—George Burns