Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. 

—Milton R. Sapirstein

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.           —Rose Kennedy

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves.                                                             —Gail Lumet Buckley

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

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

—Dodie Smith

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.        —Shirley Abbott

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

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.   —Anthony Brandt

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.                                                                          —George Eliot

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.            —Erma Bombeck

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

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