Family Reunion Quotes - Page 2

• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stories, Next, Generations

  "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Birth Control, Genealogy, Form

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• I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Wish, Reuniting

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Family, Believe, Being Thankful

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Family, Witty

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Irrational

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• In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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  I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Grandfather, Might

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• I think that the success of the franchise is helpful for launching different aspects of my career. It's sort of the reliable cousin that you can always count on for every family reunion. Because of 'Step Up' I've been able to really take my career to the next level. I have them to thank for a lot of my success.

  Alyson Stoner

  Cousin, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• You might be a redneck if you look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet 'Ms. Right

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Looks, Might

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• My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

  Karen Russell

  Feelings, Generations, Picnics

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• You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

  Edna Buchanan

  Family, Brain, Trying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

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• What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

  Roger Ebert

  Food, Loss, Track

  "Life Itself". Documentary, January 19, 2014.

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• One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will be the greatest family reunion we've ever known, with our loved ones, relatives and ancestors all together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. All together at last!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Together, Able

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• If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Thinking, Dna

  "After the Beer Summit". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2010.

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• When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

  Sherri Shepherd

  Cousin, Phones, Ideas

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

  Wentworth Miller

  Hands, White, Racism

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• I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

  Paula Cole

  Thinking, Giving, Release

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