Why 21 Quotes? There are 21 quotes, for 21 days, the number of days it takes to create or break a habit. Do you want to motivate yourself to write, create, get healthy and loose weight? Do you want more peace, love, happiness, creativity, justice, or courage in our lives and world, we must first THINK about these things; because inevitably, we become what we THINK and our world is a reflection of us.
Family Quote 1
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Family Quote 2
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Family Quote 3
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
Family Quote 4
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
Family Quote 5
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Family Quote 6
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
Family Quote 7
Blood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble
Best to seek out a relative’s open arms.
~Author Unknown
Family Quote 8
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard
Family Quote 9
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by 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
Family Quote 10
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford
Family Quote 11
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. ~Marsha Norman
Family Quote 12
Friends are God’s apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
Family Quote 13
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. ~George Eliot
Family Quote 14
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, “Easter”
Family Quote 15
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Family Quote 16
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Family Quote 17
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné
Family Quote 18
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
Family Quote 19
There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Family Quote 20
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
Family Quote 21
I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. ~Fred Allen
