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

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

A family can develop only with a loving woman at its center.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

So much of what is the best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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.

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.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Family, nature and health all go together.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

A tree is known by its fruit.

A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.