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“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.”

“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.”