Funny Family Reunion Quotes - Page 2

• At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

  Mark V. Olsen

  Family, The End Of The Day, Togetherness

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

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Cary Grant

  Family, Running, Insanity

  "Fictional character: Mortimer Brewster". "Arsenic and Old Lace", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Faith, Hope, Future

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

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Family Reunion

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• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Family, Home

  "The Death of the Hired Man" l. 121 (1914)

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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 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

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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.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• The family is a haven in a heartless world.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Heartless, World

  Christopher Lasch (1997). “Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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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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• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Family, Important

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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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  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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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Dance

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• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mom, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.81, Penguin

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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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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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