Calamity Quote by Laurie Colwin

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Families and friendships are like quilts-each person intricately connected to the other”

— Anonymous

It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep…

— Benoite Groult

“It is a good thing for a man to live in a family for the same reason that it is a good thing for…

— G.K. Chesterton

It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond…

— Queen Latifah

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as…

— Anonymous

“The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a collective experience…

— Susan Willis

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience…

— Toni Morrison

“Certainly it would not be too much to say that the home is the communal embodiment of family life. Thus the purity of the…

— Nicholas Bullock

FAMILY is at the centre of life's meaning. Individuals linked together by a golden chain of love. Family celebrates triumphs and shares adversities across…

— Ritu Ghatourey

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor…

— Marge M. Kennedy