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FAMILY: Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family â€” in another city. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)

FAMILY: Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Welsh proverb)

FAMILY: The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Sam Levenson, U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

FAMILY: I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. (Mary Karr, U.S. poet, essayist, and memoirist, Born 1955)

FAMILY: Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Jim Bishop, U.S. journalist and author, 1907-1987)

FAMILY: What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FAMILY: Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. (Anthony J. Brandt, U.S. author, 1961-2013)

FAMILY: The family is a haven in a heartless world. (Christopher Lasch, U.S. history professor, moralist, and social critic, 1932-1994)

FAMILY: The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. (Mario Puzo, Italian-American screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, most notably The Godfather, 1920-1999)