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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn

Historian · American · b. 1947

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

Patrick Marber

Writer · English · b. 1964

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

Novelist · American · b. 1941

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Maya Lin

Architect · American · b. 1959

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Adam Clarke

Theologian · British

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

Director · English · b. 1945

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Pierre Salinger

Public Servant · American · 1925 – 2004

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Politician · American · b. 1935

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Barbara Bush

First Lady · American · b. 1925

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Statesman · Chechen · 1909 – 2004

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Author · Japanese · b. 1954

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

John Selden

Statesman · English · 1584 – 1654

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Economist · American · b. 1943

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Michelle Obama

First Lady · American · b. 1964

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Alex Haley

Novelist · American · 1921 – 1992

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

Thomas Menino

Politician · American · b. 1942

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles Eastman

Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Oz

Writer · Israeli · b. 1939

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Tony Scott

Director · British · b. 1944

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Ed Pastor

Politician · American · b. 1943

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Jacques Chirac

Statesman · French · b. 1932

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Orson Pratt

Theologian · American · 1811 – 1881

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

Desmond Tutu

Leader · South African · b. 1931

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Edgar Watson Howe

Editor · American · 1853 – 1937

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Gregory Bateson

Scientist · British · 1904 – 1980

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

Sam Donaldson

Journalist · American · b. 1934

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving

Novelist · American · b. 1942

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Richard G. Scott

Clergyman · American · b. 1928

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Antonio Tabucchi

Writer · Italian · b. 1943

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

Joe Shuster

Artist · Canadian · 1914 – 1992

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ugo Betti

Playwright · Italian · 1892 – 1953

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Dick Armey

Politician · American · b. 1940

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

R. A. Salvatore

Author · American · b. 1959

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

Anthony Trollope

Author · English · 1815 – 1882

I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

Zach Wamp

Politician · American · b. 1957

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

Barbara Bush

First Lady · American · b. 1925

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Robert Burton

Writer · English · 1577 – 1640

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Scientist · American

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Dave Eggers

Writer · American · b. 1970

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

Edward Kennedy

Politician · American · 1932 – 2009

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Jackie Collins

Author · British · b. 1937

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