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Quotations by Subject: Family
(Related Subjects: Marriage, Parents, Children)
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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
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David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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.
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Jane Howard, "Families"
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
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Jeff Foxworthy
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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