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“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.”

“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.”

“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”

“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.”

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“Being popular is the most important thing in the world!”

“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.”