| As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family. |
| I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodine can be. |
| When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure. |
| There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother.Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. |
| Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we falter. |
| Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day. |
| It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family. |
| The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. |
| 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. |