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I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?-Jeff Lindsay

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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?-Robert Brault

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

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That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.-Deb Caletti

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I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.-Anthony Anderson

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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.-Gail Lumet Buckley

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Family is a blessing. – Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.-Marcelina Hardy

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I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.-Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.-Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.-Jonathan Safran Foer

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.-Nancy Mitford

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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.-Anna Quidlen

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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

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Families, can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em ..-Tate Hallaway

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

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I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.-Li Na

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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!-Albert Einstein

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The family is a haven in a heartless world.-Christopher Lasch

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.-Ellen de Generes

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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.-Rodney Dangerfield

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.-Burton Hillis

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Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.-Marsha Norman

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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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From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.-Jarod Kintz

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.George Bernard Shaw

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There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.-Willie Stargell

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.-Bertrand Russell

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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.-Ugo Betti

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Family makes you who you are and aren’t.-Marcelina Hardy

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The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.-Unknown

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Family knows your flaws but loves you anyway.-Marcelina Hardy

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.-Chinese Proverb

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God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.-Jerry Falwell

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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