Family Quotes

· If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love. – Maya Angelou

· Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. --Richard L. Evans

· Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. –Anthony Brandt

· Friends are family members your not ashamed to bring in public. - Unknown

· A family vacation is one where you arrive with five bags, four kids and seven I-THOUGHT-YOU-PACKED-ITS. –Ivern Ball

· Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. –Swedish Proverb

· To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. –Confucius

· A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. –Buddha

· Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. --Jewish Proverbs

· 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

· The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other. --Andrew H. Malcolm

· 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

· The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. --Thomas Jefferson

· We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. --Mark Twain

· If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved. --Vic Conant

· Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. –Chinese Proverb

· There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. –Henry Ward Beecher

· One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. –Jewish Proverb

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