Quotes: Family

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other

- Burton Hillis -

The merry family gatherings--
The old, the very young
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.

For Christmas is tradition time--
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.

- Helen Lowrie Marshall -

The family is one of nature's masterpieces

- George Santayana -

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold

- Jimmy Buffet -

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

- John Bowring -

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.

- Unknown -

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich

- Unknown -

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

- Desmond Tutu -

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories

- George Eliot -

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family

- Anthony Brandt -

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there

- Barbara Bush -

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future

- Gail Lumet Buckley -

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore -

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.; Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one

- Jane Howard -

In time of test, family is best.

- Burmese Proverb -

Family faces are magic mirrors; Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

- Gail Lumet Buckley -

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.

- Mildred B. Vermont -

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

- Peter De Vries -

Sweater; a garment worn by child when it's mother is feeling chilly

- Ambrose Bierce -

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland -

A father carries pictures where his money used to be

- Author Unknown -