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.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
Family faces are magic mirrors.Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.