Families

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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

A happy family is Heaven on Earth.

Bless those who come from far away, to gather with us here today.
~John Williams

Having some place to go is home.
Having someone to love is family.
Having both is a blessing.

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

Family…. The we of me.
~Carson McCullers

A family reunion, tables laden with food, an old quilt around our shoulders as we sit around the fire. These are the moments that memories and familes are made of.
~Elna Rae

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl.
~Sir Winston Churchill

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
~Sir John Bowring

So much of what is great...has sprung from the closeness of the family.
~Sir James Barrie

The most treasured heirlooms are the sweet memories of our family.

One generation plants trees, The next enjoys the shade.
~Chinese Proverb

The love of a family makes life beautiful.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
~Pope John Paul II

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
~Dodie Smith

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

To love your family is to know a love with no limits.
~Wilson Figueroa

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
~George Santayana

How will our children know who they are if they don't know where they come from?
~John Steinbeck

Family Heritage
Within the embrace of family we discover the sharing of life's most precious legacy. It is here we learn to love and to be loved, and to understand the meaning of listening hearts, outstretched hands, and the song of joy and laughter. The beauty of family brings us cherished memories we wish to hold forever, for it is through our memories that our hearts find their way home.

F is for Familiar. . .
there is no place like home.
A is for Always welcome . . .
no matter how far you roam.
M is for Memories . . .
more cherished each passing day.
I is for Inspiration . . .
given along the way.
L is for Love you feel . . .
each time you are together.
Y is for the Years to come . . .
for family lasts forever.