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

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

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

“we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.”

“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.”

“Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.”

“Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas”

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

“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.”

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”

“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.”

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

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

“Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.”

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

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