I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.
PHYLLIS DILLER, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
ANNE ENRIGHT, The Gathering
In houses where, in place of that sacred, inmost flame of love, there is discord at the centre, the whole household becomes hypocritical.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Esmond
That was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.
CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Glass
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, The Virginians
We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently.
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit is Rich
What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman.
In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting.
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.
ERMA BOMBECK, Family: The Ties that Bind ... And Gag!
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