It can be a difficult task to bring two families together to create a single cohesive blended family. These quotes about combining two families highlight some of the challenges that each member can face.
“A circle of strength and love. Our family, founded on faith, joined in love, kept by God.”
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.”
“Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
“Family means putting your arms each other and being there.”
“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”
“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.”
“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”
“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.”
“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
“It’s nice to have friends, but it’s better when your friends are family.”
“May they nurture their family with devotion, see their children grow in body, mind and spirit, and come at last to the end of their lives with hearts content and in joyful anticipation of heaven.”
“Nobody 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.”
“Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.”
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!”
“Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.”
“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”
“The secret to blending families is there is no secret. It’s scary and awesome and ragged and perfect and always changing. Love and laugh hard. Try again tomorrow. But that’s life advice, right?”
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.”
“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.”
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
“Together we make one beautiful family.”
“Two families joined by love.”
“We 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.”
“We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.”
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
Child development is so contingent on the right environment and upbringing. The methods used in their childhood can have an affect on them for the rest of their life.
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