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The old saw that "you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family” may be true, but most of us would agree that we cherish our family ties. Family quotes capture the very essence of our unique relationship with our kin who are always there for us through good times and bad, always offering a shoulder to lean on or cry on in our hour of need. In fact, one of the many memorable family quotes here can even help you find the right way to say something that may have always been in your heart, but never seemed to roll easily from your lips. Reference.com Definition of Family
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Audrey Hepburn

"True friends are families which you can select." — Audrey Hepburn
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Cute    Editor's Pick    Family    Friends Or Friendship    Quote of the Day    Sincerity    Truth   

Eva Burrows

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." — Eva Burrows
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George Bernard Shaw

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." — George Bernard Shaw
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Family    Happiness    Heaven    Hope    Hopes    inspirational    Irish Dramatist   

Charles Colton

"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values." — Charles Colton
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Authority    Community    Family    Government    Learning    Life    Livelihood    Living    Love    Society    Value   

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"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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English Politician    Family    Flowers   

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Family    Love   

Imelda Marcos

"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity." — Imelda Marcos
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British Journalist    Comfort    Family    Fear    Human Rights   

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"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other." — Jet Li
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George Santayana

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." — George Santayana
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American Philosopher    Family   

Clare Luce

"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family." — Clare Luce
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Civilization    Family    Women   

Bruce Barton

"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house." — Bruce Barton
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Aesop

"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone." — Aesop
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Margaret Mead

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship." — Margaret Mead
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Chanakya

"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family." — Chanakya
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"Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive" — Stella Benson
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"Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence." — Mark Poster
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Jane Austen

"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be." — Jane Austen
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George Bernard Shaw

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices." — George Bernard Shaw
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Robert Frost

"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." — Robert Frost
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American Poet    Family   

Bill Cosby

"Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet." — Bill Cosby
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"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters." — F. Fisher
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