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“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

“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.”

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

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

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”

“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”

“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”

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

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.”

“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.”

“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”