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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
~ Francis Bacon

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
~ Anita Baker

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
~ Joseph Addison

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
~ George Ade

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
~ Felix Adler

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.
~ Aesop

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.
~ Hannah Arendt

Cruel is the strife of brothers.
~ Aristotle

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

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

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]
~ Bible

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
~ Erma Bombeck

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
~ Anthony Brandt

The government is becoming the family of last resort.
~ Jerry Brown

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
~ Buddha

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
~ Jimmy Buffet

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
~ George Burns