Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl (Quote by - no superior alternative has yet been found. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

In time of test, family is best. (Quote by - Burmese Proverb)

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. (Quote by - Ken Livingstone)

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant (Quote by - and let the air out of the tires. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. (Quote by - Ed Howe)

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. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much. (Quote by - Frank Pittman)

We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues (Quote by - Hannah More)

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under, try not to go bald. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. (Quote by - Black Elk)

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

My family begins with me, your family ends with you. (Quote by - Iphicrates)

We have been through so much together. None of us are from London and we're living away from our friends and family. We only have each other and that's what has made us so tight - that's why we have to remain as a five. (Quote by - Kimberley Walsh)

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. (Quote by - Robert Orben)

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. (Quote by - Marge Kennedy)

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. (Quote by - Stephanie Marston)

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)