Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Quote by - Welsh proverb)

Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure. (Quote by - Christopher Gist)

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. (Quote by - Rose Macaulay)

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. (Quote by - John Donne)

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. (Quote by - Nancy Mitford)

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Quote by - Martin Mull)

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Quote by - Aristotle)

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. (Quote by - Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer)

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get. (Quote by - Wilfred Peterson)

A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. (Quote by - Edvard Grieg)

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. (Quote by - Fred Allen)

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel. (Quote by - Chinese saying)

I will not be commenting further at this time and would now ask for some space and personal privacy for me and my family (Quote by - Mark Oaten)

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't like to talk about my family (Quote by - Luis Miguel)

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)

This has been a tough decision to make but I have decided to put my family first [on quitting as Wales coach] (Quote by - Mike Ruddock)

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

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral (Quote by - Ulysses S Grant)

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental. (Quote by - Conrad Hyers)