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Writers will happen in the best of families.
Sep 29, 2025
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
Families are the compass that guide us.
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
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.
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.