I think
the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable
things in the world go on. -Ugo Betti
we are each other's business:
we are each other's magnitude and bond. -Gwendolyn Brooks
I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any
other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly
and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally
do so. -Samuel Butler
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known,
so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament
within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences
there. -John Donne
There's no vocabulary
For love within a family, love that's lived in
But not looked at, love within the light of which
All else is seen, the love within which
All other love finds speech.
This love is silent.
-T. S. Eliot-
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any
rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits
in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -F.
Scott Fitzgerald
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know
that works, is the family. -Lee Iacocca
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable
bond. -James Earl Jones
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down
you have to struggle to survive. -Robert Kennedy
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the
other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group
of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience,
often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but
who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? -Rose
Macaulay
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family
who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love,
renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter.
The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to
taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world
in which we live. -Pope John Paul II
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
- Christina Rossetti -
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite
escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.- Dodie Smith
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy
in its own way. -Leo Tolstoy
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your
children, and--here's the big curve--for your parents. -Wendy Wasserstein
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their
son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. -Evelyn
Waugh
