Quotations About / On: FAMILY

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say.

The ideal of the self-sufficient American family is a myth, dangerous because most families, especially affluent families, do in fact make use of a range of services to survive. Families needing one or another kind of help are not morally deficient; most families do need assistance at one time or another.

Every family has bad memories.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.