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“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”