Monday, February 15, 2010

Family Sayings

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” ~Johann Schiller


Families are Forever


Families Forever


“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



“A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.” ~ Helen Keller



“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



“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ~Michael Levine



“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns



“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ~ Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer



“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.” ~Ashleigh Brilliant



“Families are like fudge… mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ~ Unknown



“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”~ Elizabeth II



“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”~ Gail Lumet Buckley



“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ~Bertrand Russell



“Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.” ~ Marsha Norman



“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” ~Ogden Nash



“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry



“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” ~Joyce Brothers



“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~Desmond Tutu



“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” ~Gail Lumet Buckley



“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ William Shakespeare

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