“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.”
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“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.”
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.”
“If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.”
“When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.”
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
“One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.”
“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”
“For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.”
“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.”
“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.”
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”
“What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?”
“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
“I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.”
“I don't think anyone has a normal family.”
“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”
“There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.”