Good Quotes about Family

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.  

Robert Brault

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.  

Ogden Nash

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.  

Joyce Brothers

In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.  

 Margaret Laurence

You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  

Desmond Tutu

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. 

Thomas Jefferson

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. 

George Bernard Shaw

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.  

Jane Howard

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.  

Nancy Mitford

Having a place to go - is a home.  Having someone to love - is a family.  Having both - is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. 

Dodie Smith