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

 —Joyce Brothers

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

 —Fred Allen

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

—George Santayana

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.

 —Kendall Hailey

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

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

 —Hugh Kingsmill

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

 —Nancy Mitford

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

 —Ogden Nash

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family — in another city.

 —George Burns

A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

 —Helen Keller

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.                                               —Leo Tolstoy

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.                                               —Theodore Hesburgh

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

 —Bertrand Russell