About Family Quotes

• No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Family, Lying, Agency

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• There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

  Jim Butcher

  Family, Home, Insane

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Knowing, Giving

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.92, Broadway Books

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Parent, Damage

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Country, Children

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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• There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

  Willie Stargell

  Family, Smile, Relatives And Friends

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• My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Cousin, Giving Up

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Blessed

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Everyday, Principles

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Family, Love You

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2012

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• I sustain myself with the love of family.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Family, Cousin

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

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• we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Family, Home, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Home, Doubt

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Family, God, Home

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• Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Family, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Family, Son, Parent

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

  Rose Macaulay

  Family, Passion, Life Is Like

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

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• There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Blood, Water

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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