Browsing Topic Best Family Gathering Quotes

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

I heard the Queen does wicked impressions of African leaders at family gatherings. When they hear me doing the same, it’s just like being in front of their mama.

It’s different when the person you love dies. There’s an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there’s the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there’s no way to deal with the grief and pain.

Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one’s heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life’s most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

Father’s Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother’s death. Maybe it’s me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

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

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

I don’t know what’s my first real memory. When you’re little, you’re always looking forward to days that are special, like Christmas, birthdays, the Fourth of July, and family gatherings. But I can’t pinpoint my earliest memory.

No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!

I wish I could relate to the people I’m related to.

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store – if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

It’s the most annoying question and they just can’t help asking you. You’ll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you’ll ask yourself far too often. It’s the question that has no good answer. It’s the question that when people stop asking it, you’ll feel even worse. – WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?