Famous quotes about family love and strength
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
– Frederick Buechner
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.”
– William Butler Yeats
“Family is the most important thing in the world.”
– Princess Diana
“When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
– Libba Bray
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
– Mark V. Olsen
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”
– Jim Butcher
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
– Sam Levenson
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
– George Moore
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – – they are your family. ”
– Jim Butcher
Leo Tolstoy (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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