"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."
Unknown

"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."
Evan Esar

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."
Johann Schiller

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
Desmond Tutu

"Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts."
Unknown

"If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion."
Ashleigh Brilliant

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
Ogden Nash

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
Erma Bombeck

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."
Joyce Brothers

"Not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love."
Charles Dickens

"The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests."
Unknown

"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
Frank A. Clark

"A little girl, asked where her home was, replied: where mother is."
Keith L. Brooks

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
Jesse Jackson

"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
Unknown

"Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back."
William D. Tammeus

"We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies."
Shirley Abbott

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them."
George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."
Paul Pearshall

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family."
Lee Iacocca

"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst."
Marge Kennedy

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."
Tenneva Jordan

"In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer."
H. Norman Wright