I have listed my top ten family reunion quotes at the first of this blog and encourage you to read to the bottom of this blog so you don\u2019t miss out on a good laugh with \u201cFunny Family Reunion Quotes\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n Top Ten Family Reunion Quotes<\/font><\/p>\n #1 \u201cA tree without roots will fall over\u201d -unknown<\/p>\n #2 "How will our children know who they are if they do not know where they came from." unknown<\/p>\n #3 "Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got." -Rose Cherin <\/p>\n #4 \u201cI wish I could relate to the people I\u2019m related to.\u201d -Jeff Foxworthy<\/p>\n #5 \u201cWhen we die we become ‘stories’ in the minds of other people.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n #6 \u201cThis packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.\u201d -Ellen Goodman<\/p>\n #7 \u201cIf you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?\u201d -Stephen Levine<\/p>\n #8 \u201cThe lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.\u201d #9 \u201cHuman beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.\u201d -Bill Cosby<\/em><\/p>\n #10 \u201c The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.\u201d -Sam Levenson<\/p>\n Family Reunion Quotes<\/font><\/p>\n "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." -Alex Haley<\/p>\n \u201cThe great gift of life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.\u201d -Kendall Hailey<\/p>\n "Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from the strength and experience of those who went before." -Heidi Swapp<\/p>\n "If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion." -Ashleigh Brilliant<\/p>\n "Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves." -Gail Lumet Buckley, writer<\/p>\n \u201cCall 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.\u201d – Jane Howard<\/p>\n "Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one." -Author Unknown<\/p>\n You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. -Frederick Buechner<\/p>\n \u201cIt is important for us \u2026 to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change. We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.\u201d -Pres. Spencer W. Kimball<\/p>\n "People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway." -Mother Theresa<\/p>\n \u201cFamily faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.\u201d – Gail Lumet Buckley<\/p>\n \u201cA good way to learn to love our relatives is to spend time together in well-planned family reunions. A family reunion can be a very personal and privileged gathering. If you have never organized your family for a reunion, start now\u2014you will receive joy far beyond your expectations. Yes, there will be discouragements. Some family members will say they don\u2019t have time or that they are too busy. But the rewards more than compensate for the discouragements.\u201d -Alma Heaton<\/p>\n "The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin<\/p>\n \u201cFamily is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.\u201d -Laura Ramirez <\/p>\n Family Quotes<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cHaving children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.–<\/em>Michael Levine<\/p>\n \u201cHome is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.\u201d -Robert Frost<\/p>\n \u201cWatching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.\u201d-Jim Bishop<\/p>\n "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." -Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. -M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter<\/p>\n \u201cThe bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.\u201d -Richard Bach<\/p>\n \u201cBlood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble it\u2019s best to seek out a relative’s open arms.\u201d – Author Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cTo us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.\u201d -Barbara Bush<\/p>\n \u201cChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.\u201d -James Arthur Bladwin<\/p>\n The past is not dead. It isn’t even past. -William Faulkner<\/p>\n "Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family." -G.B. Shaw<\/p>\n \u201cOur most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child\u2019s life to put feet firmly on the path home.\u201d -Henry B. Eyring<\/p>\n \u201cFamilies that play together stay together, especially when their play is uplifting and wholesome. Family vacations, holidays, birthday celebrations, and other activities build strong bonds and feelings of self-worth. The phrase \u201cRemember when we\u2026\u201d is sure to bring love and laughter in the years to come.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n "Be a storehouse of happy memories." -Gretchen Rubin<\/p>\n "Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and ‘at home.\u201d -Thomas S. Monson<\/p>\n "The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to." -Dodie Smith<\/p>\n "Our family is a circle of strength and love, with every birth and every union, the circle will grow, every joy shared adds more love, every crisis faced together, makes the circle stronger." -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.\u201d -Bob Hope<\/p>\n "Our most treasured family heirlooms are our sweet family memories.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cOur most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.\u201d -Paul Pearshall<\/p>\n \u201cNobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.\u201d -Margaret Mead<\/p>\n When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. -Joyce Brothers<\/p>\n \u201cThe family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.\u201d -Erma Bombeck<\/p>\n Family Heritage and Genealogy Quotes<\/font> <\/p>\n I trace my family history so I will know who to blame. "The measure of a woman’s character is not what she gets from her ancestors, but what she leaves her descendants." -Unknown<\/p>\n "He who plants a tree plants hope." – Lucy Laroom<\/p>\n "Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. " -Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n \u201cWhen our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors\u2026\u201d -Russell M. Nelson<\/p>\n "We are who we are because they were who they were. . ." Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cGenealogists never die, they just lose their roots.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.\u201d -George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n "If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. " -Madeleine Engle<\/p>\n What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.\u201d Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It’s the threads I need. -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cEvery man is a quotation from all his ancestors.\u201d -Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n "To our children, we give two things, one is roots, the other is wings." -Unknown<\/p>\n Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! -Unknown<\/p>\n "To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root." -Chinese proverb<\/p>\n Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. -Unknown<\/p>\n "The kind of ancestors we had is not as important as the kind descendants or ancestors have." -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cResearch: What I’m doing, when I don’t know what I’m doing.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cTake nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records. \u201c -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cA family tree can wither if nobody tends it’s roots.\u201d -Unknown <\/p>\n \u201cWhen we die we become ‘stories’ in the minds of other people.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cWe all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.\u201d \u201cHeredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!\u201d Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cKinship: it\u2019s all relative!\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you search for ancestors, you find great friends! \u201c -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cStill trying to decorate my family tree. \u201c -Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s hard to be humble with ancestors like mine!\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n Funny Family Reunion Quotes<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n "There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."-Jerry Seinfeld<\/p>\n \u201cHumans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. -Douglas Adams\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou Might Be a Redneck If…Your family tree does not fork.\u201d \u201cAny family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.\u201d -Unknown<\/p>\n "Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking." -Unknown<\/p>\n Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! -Author Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cFriends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.\u201d -Author Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.\u201d \u2013Fred Allen<\/p>\n \u201cAlways be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.\u201d -Phyllis Diller<\/p>\n \u201cImportant families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground." -Francis Bacon<\/p>\n \u201cI think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.\u201d -Author Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cA family reunion is an effective form of birth control.\u201d -Author Unknown<\/p>\n \u201cA family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.\u201d \u2013Ogden Nash<\/p>\n \u201cIf 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. \u201c -Jeff Foxworthy<\/p>\n \u201cNever let an angry sister comb your hair.\u201d – Patricia McCann <\/p>\n \u201cParents are not interested in justice; they’re interested in peace and quiet.\u201d – Bill Cosby.<\/p>\n \u201cMy family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called ‘Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.\u201d Penelope Lombard<\/p>\n "Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night." -Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n \u201cEvery family tree has some sap in it.\u201d -Author Unknown<\/p>\n Aunt MO<\/p>\n …After all, all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations. –<\/strong> H.L. Mencken on Shakespeare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love good quotes. I like to end each of my blogs with a quote about families or family reunions. The quotes I am including in this blog are not quotes I have written but quotes from people with … Continue reading ![\"quill\"](\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/quill.jpg\" "\\"quill\\"")
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-Jeff Foxworthy<\/p>\n\u201cMy childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn’t because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.<\/q>\u201d -Bill Cosby<\/p>\n