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.
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
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.
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
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.
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining.
