Quotes on Family Reunion

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The family. We are 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. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

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

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.