Your morning thought

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Families

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Quindlen (1953 - )

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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

Burns (1896 - 1996)

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 , "Families"

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), ina, Chapter 1, first line

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998

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 and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999