Quotes on Family! 300 Best, Short, Inspirational Family Sayings

Quotes on Family

  • “Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” ―Oscar Wilde
  • “Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.” ―Chinese Proverb
  • “My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.” ―Bobby Darin
  • “At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ―Mark V. Olsen
  • “No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.” ―William Butler Yeats
  • “A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.” ―Pat Conroy
  • “This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.” ―Arundhati Roy
  • “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they got together.” ―Sam Levenson
  • “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” ―Leo Christopher
  • “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” ―Vito Corleone, The Godfather
  • “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ―George Bernard Shaw
  • “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ―Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”– Trenton Lee Stewart
  • “No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.” ―Calire LaZebnik
  • “All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.” ―Douglas Coupland
  • “There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” ―Willie Stargell
  • “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.” ―C.S. Lewis
  • “Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.” ―Martin Luther
  • “Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.” ―Reinhold Niebuhr
  • “He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.” ―Benjamin Franklin
  • “My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.” ―Jodi Picoult
  • “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” ―Haniel Long
  • “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “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 that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” ―Unknown
  • “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ―Mark Twain
  • “One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” ―Robert Byrd
  • “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
  • “Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.” ―Menacheim Begin
  • “In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.” ―Marge Kennedy

Best Quotes About Family

  • “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ―Jay McInerney
  • “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.” ―Matt Groening
  • “Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” ―Martin Mull
  • “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” —Khalil Gibran
  • “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ―Pierce Brown
  • “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” ―Reba McEntire
  • “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.” ―Jim Butcher
  • “Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” ―Courtland Milloy
  • “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” ―George Carlin
  • “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or happier, or more exasperated, or more secure.” ―Jim Butcher
  • “The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” ―Charles Kuralt
  • “You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” ―Lilly Singh
  • “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” ―Mario Puzo
  • “A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” ―Robert Brault
  • “If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.” ―Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • “Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” ―Gail Lumet Buckley
  • “Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” ―Donna Hedges
  • “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” ―Jonathan Safran Foer
  • “The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ―Dodie Smith
  • “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” ―Ann Brashares
  • “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” —Margaret Mead
  • “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” ―Menacheim Begin
  • “A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” ―Brad Pitt
  • “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” ―Kristin Hannah
  • “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” ―Ellen DeGeneres
  • “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ―Shannon L. Alder
  • “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.” ―Robert Frost
  • “Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.” ―Sarah Dessen
  • “The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” ―Kendall Hailey
  • “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.” ―Robin Hobb
  • “My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ―Rick Riordan
  • “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse…and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.” ―Rick Riordan
  • “That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.” ―Cassandra Clare

Family Love Quotes

  • “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” ―John Wooden
  • “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ―Anthony Brandt
  • “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” ―Irina Shayk
  • “Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. And having both is a blessing.”
  • “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” ―Lisa Weed

Short Quotes About Family

  • “Family is family.” ―Linda Linney
  • “Like father, like son.” ―Asian Proverb
  • “Blood is thicker than water.” ―German Proverb
  • “Family is more than blood.” ―Cassandra Clare
  • “A house divided cannot stand.” ―Bible (Matthew 12:25)
  • “Charity begins at home.” ―Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
  • “Children are a poor man’s riches.” ―English Proverb
  • “Children have more need of models than critics.”
  • “Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ―George Santayana
  • “Family: where life begins and love never ends.” ―Unknown
  • “Friends are the family you choose.” ―Jess C. Scott
  • “Home is where the heart is.” ―J.J. McCloskey (1870)
  • “In time of test, family is best.” ―Burmese Proverb
  • “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ―George Santayana
  • “God is the designer of the family.” ―Gordon B. Hinckley
  • “I sustain myself with the love of family.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” ―Asian Proverb
  • “A crab walks, so walks his children.” ―African proverb Kpelle Tribe
  • “A man should never neglect his family for business.” ―Walt Disney
  • “Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home.” ―Unknown
  • “Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts.” ―Les Dawson
  • “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” ―Michael J. Fox
  • “Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” ―David Ogden Stiers
  • “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.” ―José Carreras
  • “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” ―Walt Disney
  • “My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.” ―Siri Hustvedt
  • “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ―Rick Riordan
  • “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.” ―Jim Butcher
  • “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” ―Guy Lafleur
  • “Writers will happen in the best of families.” ―Rita Mae Brown
  • “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ―William Shakespeare
  • “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” ―Mitch Albom
  • “The memories we make with our family is everything.” ―Candace Cameron Bure
  • “To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.” ―Chinese Proverb
  • “A family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.” ―Unknown
  • “I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” ―Paul Pearsall
  • “Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.” ―Mitch Albom
  • “The family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” ―Alex Haley
  • “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” ―Pope John XXIII
  • “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” ―Confucius
  • “Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”― Stieg Larsson
  • “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” —Jerry Seinfeld
  • “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” ―Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” ―Walt Whitman

Inspirational Family Quotes

  • “Family: Where life begins and love never ends.” ―Unknown
  • “Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.” ―Unknown
  • “I sustain myself with the love of family.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “My family is my strength and my weakness.” ―Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” ―Jesse Jackson
  • “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” ―J.K. Rowling
  • “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” ―George W. Bush
  • “Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.” ―S. Bryan
  • “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ―Winnie The Pooh
  • “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” ―Michael Imperioli
  • “You need a strong family because, at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally.” ―Esha Gupta
  • “Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.” ―Dave Willis
  • “Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” ―Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • “When all the dust is settled, and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” ―Thomas Jefferson
  • “Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.” ―Unknown
  • “Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” ―Josiah
  • “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.” ―Winston Churchill
  • “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.” ―Marvin J. Ashton
  • “Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.” ―Bill Owens
  • “My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear, and they are there for me in the good times and bad times.” ―Kelly Clarkson
  • “Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.” ―Jenna Morasca

Funny Quotes about Family

  • “Caller ID was invented for family screening.”
  • “The bigger your family, the bigger your problems.”
  • “Family is like that annoying itch you can’t scratch.”
  • “Families are like fudge—mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ―Les Dawson
  • “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” ―Harry Morgan
  • “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ―George Burns
  • “Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”
  • “Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member does or says.”
  • “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” ―Marge Kennedy

Meaningful Quotes about Family

  • “Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
  • “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” ―John C. Maxwell
  • “Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” ―Wanda Hope Carter
  • “It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” ―Philip Green
  • “Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” ―Niki Taylor

Sad Quotes about Family

  • “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
  • “Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.”
  • “You should never sacrifice three things: your family, your heart, or your dignity.”
  • “Not all scars show, not all wounds heal, sometimes you can’t always see, the pain someone feels.”

Famous Quotes about the Importance of Family

  • “The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” ―Louis Zamperini
  • “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ―Mother Teresa
  • “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy
  • “A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.” ―Pat Conroy
  • “In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.” ―Alex Haley
  • “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” ―Anthony Liccione
  • “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s what we spend it on.” ―Leo Christopher
  • “Family love is messy, clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.” ― P. J. O’Rourke
  • “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” ―Elizabeth Berg
  • “Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” ―Unknown
  • “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” ―George A. Moore
  • “When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family and friends.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” ―Richard Bach
  • “The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem.” ―Walt Disney
  • “My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.” ― Jodi Picoult
  • “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” ―Haniel Long
  • “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.” ―Marvin J. Ashton
  • “Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.” ―Menacheim Begin
  • “In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.” ―Marge Kennedy

Family Support Quotes

  • “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” ―Richard Bach
  • “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, and call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ―Jane Howard
  • “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ―Brad Henry
  • “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” ―Lee Iacocca
  • “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” ―Guy Lafleur

Short Meaningful Cute Family Quotes

  • “Family is forever.”
  • “Love starts with family.”
  • “Once a mother, always a mother.”
  • “Love your family as you love yourself.”
  • “Where there is family, there is love.”
  • “Family is the heart of a home.”
  • “A family takes care of their own.”
  • “Family knows your flaws but loves you, anyway.”
  • “Family makes you who you are and who you aren’t.”
  • “God wouldn’t have given you a family if He didn’t think you needed it.”
  • “The strength of family isn’t determined by the number of members, but rather by the amount of love given and received.”

Short and Sweet Family Quotes

  • “Your family will always hold your heart.”
  • “A family that supports one another thrives.”
  • “No one knows you better than your family does.”
  • “Love, honesty, and connection are cultivated in a family.”
  • “The bond between a parent and child is unbreakable.”
  • “Connections within a family are powerful forces of nature.”
  • “Family is there to support you and honor your decisions.”
  • “A family is the purest form of love and acceptance.”
  • “No matter what happens, a family will always have your back.”
  • “There is no love greater than the love shared within a family.”

Inspirational Quotes on Family Values

  • “Family. Where Life Begins Love Never Ends.”
  • “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.”
  • “No family is perfect..we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, family is family..The love will always be there.”
  • “The older you get the more you realize that it isn’t about the material things, or pride or ego. It is about our hearts and who they beat for.”

Bible Quotes About Family

  • “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” ―Pope John XXIII
  • “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” ―Romans 12:9
  • “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ―Desmond Tutu
  • “I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” ―Lil’ Kim
  • “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.” ―1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Inspirational Quotes about Family Strength

  • “My family is my greatest strength.” ―Priyanka Chopra
  • “Family strength is a marvellous thing.” ―Agatha Christie
  • “Love is the foundation of strength in a family.” ―Melissa Foster
  • “Family is strength who support in every ups and downs.” ―Sanjana
  • “My family is my strength and my weakness.” ―Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” ―Confucius
  • “My faith, my family, my friends–that’s where I get my strength.” ―Dana Loesch
  • “People don’t understand the power of love and family and strength.” ―Paul Pierce
  • “My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.” ―Benjamin Bratt
  • “In the family, there is strength that all the power in the world cannot undo.”
  • “I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.” ―Chris Gibson
  • “That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.” ―Criss Jami
  • “The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.” ―Jeff Fortenberry
  • “Our family is a circle of strength; founded on faith, joined in love, kept by God, together forever.”
  • “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ―Lao Tzu
  • “Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you.” ―Janet Reno
  • “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” ―Mario Puzo
  • “The strength of a family isn’t determined by the number of members, but rather by the amount of love given and received.”
  • “She found her strength from her family. Strength to fight in a world where people called her names for anything she did.”
  • “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “The only strength that really matters is the strength that makes you what you are in the eyes of those you love.” ―Wes Fessler
  • “Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.” ―Joseph Losery
  • “I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family…the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.” ―Adriana Trigiani
  • “One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.” ―Robert Kennedy
  • “My family is like a sanctuary to me. I turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing, no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.”
  • “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.” ―Winston Churchill
  • “I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family – that’s my strength as well. I’m truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I’m happy!” – Selena Gomez
  • “I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than you could ever imagine.” ―Taya Kyle
  • “Family strengthen each other during storms. They help us to be strong. After all, it is a family tradition. Our roots are deeper, our hearts are stronger, we never give up.” ―Karen L Madewell
  • “My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.” ―Ariel Sharon
  • “Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed can provide what our families provide.” ―Deavita
  • “The foolish family worry over blood. I care nothing for purify of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.” ―Pierce Brown
  • “If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.” ―Janet Reno
  • “Our family is a circle of strength and love…Our family with every birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength. Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.” ―Harriet Morgan
  • “Families are the ties that remind us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.” ―Bill Owens
  • “The multiple angry assaults on the “traditional family” are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the “covenantal family” of the Bible into the hated “hierarchical family” of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others.” ―Os Guinness
  • “My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn’t simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.” ―Riccardo Tisci
  • “I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.” ―Chadwick Boseman
  • “I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.” ―Lee Iacocca
  • “My strength has always been my family and my friends who are like family. The business can chew you up and spit you out, and if you don’t have some calm in the storm, it’s a very lonely journey. My family and friends love me whether I’m working or not, and that makes all the difference.” ―Melanie Nicholls-King
  • “The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it’s tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing.” ―Elijah

Famous Quotes About Family

  • “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • “You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” —Anita Baker
  • “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” —George Santayana
  • “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” —Brad Henry
  • “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” —Anthony Brandt
  • “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” —Lee Iacocca
  • “Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” —Andre Maurois
  • “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” —Marge Kennedy

Nice Family Quotes

  • “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” ―Albert Einstein
  • “Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.” ―Evan Esar
  • “Where there is family, there is love.”
  • “Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.”
  • “Family is the heart of a home.”
  • “The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ―Dodie Smith
  • “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” ―Peter Buffett

Sentimental Family Quotes and Sayings

  • “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” ―’Coco’
  • “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” ―Marjorie Pay Hinckley
  • “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” ―Mary Karr
  • “’Ohana’ means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” ―Stitch, ‘Lilo and Stitch’
  • “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” ―Reba McEntire
  • “Live your life with love as your guiding principle—keep your family and close friends close.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “My friends and family are my support system… Without them I have no idea where I would be.” ―Kelly Clarkson
  • “You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.” ―Rod Stewart
  • “Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.” ―Trenton Lee Stewart
  • “With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.” ―Michelle Obama
  • “Pass along the value of empathy to our children. Not sympathy, but empathy—the ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes; to look at the world through their eyes.” ―Barack Obama
  • “My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.” ―Jodi Picoult
  • “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” ―Haniel Long
  • “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.” ―Barbara Bush
  • “In truth, a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love…” ―Marge Kennedy

Disney Quotes About Family

  • “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” ―Stitch
  • “This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” ―Stitch
  • “Some people are worth melting for.” ―Olaf
  • “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” ―Coco
  • “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” ―Walt Disney

Family Sayings and Quotes

  • “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” ―George Herbert (1593-1633)
  • “Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.” ―Korean (on parenting and children)
  • “An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.” ―Spanish Proverb
  • “A father’s a treasure; a brother’s a comfort; a friend is both.” ―Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  • “What children say, they have heard at home.” ―Wolof (West African (on parenting and children)
  • “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
  • “You can do anything with children if only you play with them.” ―German (on parenting and children)
  • “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” ―Johann Schiller
  • “We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.” ―Marquise de S_vign
  • “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.” ―Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  • “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” ―Charles R. Swindoll
  • “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ―Michael Levinve
  • “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ―Theodore Hesburgh
  • “Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”
  • “The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.” ―M. Grundler
  • “When any trouble comes in home, all family members takes it as its own and this is called family love.” ―Unknown
  • “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ―Angela Schwindt
  • “When you educate a man you educate an individual. When you educate a woman you educate a whole family.” ―Robert M. Maciver
  • “The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.” ―Quentin
  • “Families ties are cherished things, forged in childhood days, by love of parents, deep and true, and sweet familiar ways.” ―Terri Burritt
  • “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” ―Deb Caletti
  • “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.” ―George Eliot
  • “Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.” ―Chuck Palahniuk
  • “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.” ―Richard Bach
  • “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.”
  • “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” ―Mitch Albom
  • “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” ―Virginia Satir
  • “This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.” ―Mitch Albom
  • “To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”