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"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family."- Lee Iacocca

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."- Paul Pearshall

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing."- Jim Rohn

"Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."- Thomas Moore

"I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed."- Anais Nin

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."- John Bowring

"If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct."- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"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

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."- Thomas Jefferson