What are some good quotes about families?

Question

I am making a slideshow of pictures for my parents 25th wedding anniversary and i am looking for some good quotes about love, marriage, family and children. Does anyone know some good ones?

Answer 1

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Family:  A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.  ~Evan Esar

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.  ~Ogden Nash

The family.  We were 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, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.  ~Erma Bombeck

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

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~Dodie Smith

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.  ~Lee Iacocca

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.  ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.  ~Marge Kennedy

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