quotable quotes on family

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
    — David Ogden Stiers
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
    — George Bernard Shaw
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.
    — Robert Byrd
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
    — Bo Bennett
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 family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
    — Desmond Tutu
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
    — Reba McEntire
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
    — Havelock Ellis
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
    — Stephen Covey
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.    — Joel Osteen
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
    — Alan Thicke
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
    — Os Guinness
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
    — Jet Li
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
    — Marcelene Cox
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