Perfect Family Quotes

• The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Sorry, Husband

  "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

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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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• I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

  John Stamos

  Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect

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• If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

  Louie Giglio

  Perfect, Challenges, Difficulty

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

  John Irving

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Family, Vocabulary Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

  E. L. James

  Family, Growing Up, Perfect

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. Marcus, my husband and I sought to assist families during difficult times. We aren't perfect people, nor are we a perfect family, but these children didn't expect us to be either. They needed a loving home and care, and we tried our best every single day.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.

  Edward Sorel

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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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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• I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

  Tim Hudson

  Dream, Perfect, Childhood

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• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  Dan Savage

  Christmas, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Perfect, Together, Titles

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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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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• There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Family, Being Thankful, Laziness

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• The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

  Robert Breault

  Games, Perfect, Boards

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• I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Real, Lying

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.82, Abbi Glines

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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 child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, School, Circles

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.121, e-artnow

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