What greater thing is there for two human souls...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain...
~George Eliot

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship...

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
~Warren G. Harding

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
~Edna Buchanan

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood...

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
~Richard Bach

I think people that have a brother...

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
~Trey Parker & Matt Stone

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business...

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
~Bill Cosby

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~Theodore Hesburgh

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Friends are God's apology for relations.
~Hugh Kingsmill

Family is just accident....

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 quarrels are bitter things...

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

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
~Barbara Bush

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
~Michael Levine

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

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