Thoughts of Family Quotes in English Images Sayings

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

- Michael Levine

I’m so thankful I had a childhood before technology took over.

- Unknown

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

- Ogden Nash

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

- P. J. O’Rourke

Where the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind.

- Unknown

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

- Maureen Hawkins

No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.

- William Butler Yeats

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

- Mother Teresa

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

- Jenny Eclair

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

John C. Maxwell

Family isn’t an important thing. It’s everything.

- Michael J. Fox Quotation

Family is a lifejacket in the stormy sea of life.

- A Quotation From J.K. Rowling

Family isn't about whose blood you have.  It's about who you care about.

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

- Romeo Miller

Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.

- Wanda Hope Carter

Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t!

- Unknown

Family. A little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud and a whole lot of love.

- Unknown

Family makes a house a home.

- Jennifer Hudson

Family. Where life begins and love never ends.

- Unknown

With all my fans I got a family again.

- Tupac Shakur

Friends are the family you choose.

- Jess C. Scott

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

- Albert Einstein

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

- Mitch Albom

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

- Serena Williams

In time of test, family is best.

- Burmese Proverb

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

- Jerry Seinfeld

Being part of a family means smiling for photos.

- Harry Morgan

The memories we make with our family are everything.

- Candace Cameron Bure

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

- Barbara Bush

Being part of a family means smiling for photos.

- Harry Morgan

The memories we make with our family is everything.

- Candace Cameron Bure

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

- Guy Lafleur

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

- Erma Bombeck

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

- George Santayana

Writers will happen in the best of families.

- Rita Mae Brown

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.

- Peter Pearsall

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

- Andre Maurois

A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

- Pope John XXIII

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

- Jerry Seinfeld

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.

- Walt Disney

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

- Mother Teresa

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

-Albert Einstein

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

- Nicolas Cage

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

- Will Durant

In time of test, family is best.

- Burmese proverb

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

We must take care of our families wherever we find them.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

- Guy Lafleur

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

- Shailene Woodley

My advice: Take a second out of the day to be thankful for your family.

- Jenna Morasca

I’d be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

- Edward Furlong

I mean, families are weird.

- Gordon Ramsay

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

- Michel de Montaigne

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

- Herbert Prochnov

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

- Andre Maurois

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.

- Dave Willis

Family is a gift that lasts forever.

- Unknown

Family Sayings in English

Family is the most important thing in the world.

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Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

- Mitch Albom

A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

- George Santayana

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

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

George Burns

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Family is the most important institution in society.

Marco Rubio

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

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I sustain myself with the love of family.

- Maya Angelou

Family is everything. Family comes first. It’s not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Madonna

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

Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.

Bar Refaeli

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life.

Barbara Bush

The memories we make with our family is everything.

Candace Cameron Bure

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

- Barbara Bush

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh Download or Share

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

- Philip Green Download or Share

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home

- Anthony Liccione

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 family – that dear octopus from whose tentacies we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

- Lilly Singh

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

- Brad Henry

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

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

Family is the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are, love you no matter what & would do anything to see you smile.

- Shea Moisture

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

Family is more than blood and a name. It’s the people who stood by you when you needed them, and who made you laugh when you felt like you couldn’t.

- Unknown

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

Family life is full of major and minor crises – the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce – and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

- Thomas Moore

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 who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.

- Unknown

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

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.

- Rick Riordan

Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.

- Cassandra Clare

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

- Mother Teresa

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

- John Wooden

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Family’s first, and that’s what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

- Serena Williams

Family: Where life begins and love never ends.

- Unknown

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

Family… a group experience of love and support.

- Marianne Williamson

You need a strong family because, at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally.

- Esha Gupta

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

- John Wooden

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

- Charles Kuralt

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

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

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

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 a just cause, the triumph of truth.

- Menachem Begin

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

- Mother Teresa

The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.

- Louis Zamperini

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

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.

- 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

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

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 and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.

- Kelly Clarkson

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

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

- Tiger Woods

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

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

- Frank Abagnale

Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.

- Unknown

It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

- Peter Buffett

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

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

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

I sustain myself with the love of family.

- Maya Angelou

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

- Pearl S. Buck

On his kids: I care about them more than I care about myself, which I think is the real definition of love. You see past yourself and become more generous and giving, and wanting only the best for your family.

- Brad Pitt

Family Quotation List

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

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

Call 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.

- Jane Howard

If you ever start felling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, al 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.'

- Jeff Foxworthy

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

- Clayton Christensen

The family is a heaven in a heartless world.

- Bar Refaeli

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

- Jennifer Ellison

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

- George Bernard Shaw

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

- Ogden Nash

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

- Anthony Liccione

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

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

- Anna Quindlen

They say that blood is thicker than water.  Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

- David Assael

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

- Mother Teresa

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

- Barbara Bush

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

- Chinese proverb

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

- Mother Teresa

There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

- Willie Stargell

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

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

- 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

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

- Alex Haley

And that’s where I’m finally at today – my life is about being with my family. This is what’s important.

- Aron Ralston

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

- Barbara Bush

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

- Brad Henry

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

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

- Oscar Wilde

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

- Rodney Dangerfield

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

- Benjamin Bratt

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

- Calire LaZebnik

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

- Jet Li

Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.

- Mary Randolph

Family Thoughts in English

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

- Elizabeth Berg

My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.

- Bobby Darin

Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.

- Unknown

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

- Jessamyn West

Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.

- Bob Ehrlich

My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.

- Bobby Darin

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

- Douglas Coupland

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.

- Auguste Napier

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.

- Siri Hustvedt

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

- Novak Djokovic

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

- Anthony Liccione

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

- Andre Maurois

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

- Kofi Annan

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

- Irina Shayk

I can’t be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.

- Martina McBride

I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.

- Anwar Hadid

On his kids: I worry about them all the time. That’s the emotional bond and responsibility that sweeps over you when you have a family to look after.

- Brad Pitt

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

- Barbara Bush

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

- Pope John Paul II

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.

- Jim Butcher

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

- Anita Baker

Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.

- Unknown

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

- Pope John Paul II

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

- Earl Nightingale

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman – bonded together for life – always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

- Jim Bunning

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

- Philip Green Quotation

A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

- Pat Conroy

To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Alex Haley

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

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

- George Burns

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

- Marge Kennedy

Call 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.

- Jane Howard

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

- E. W. Howe

It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

- Peter Buffett

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

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

- Barbara Bush

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

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

- Jonathan Foer

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

- Arundhati Roy

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

- Desmond Tutu

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.

- Michael Imperioli

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

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

- Chinese Proverb

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

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

- Unknown

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 family is the first essential cell of human society.

- Pope John XXIII

It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

- Philip Green

When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.

- Barbara Bush

A family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.

- Unknown

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

- Barbara Bush

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

- G.K. Chesterton

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

- Mary Karr

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

- Margaret Mead

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.

- Niki Taylor

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.

- Niki Taylor

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

- Irina Shayk

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

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.

- Michael Imperioli

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

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

- Mario Puzo

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

- Bo Bennett

I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

- Reba McEntire

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

- Marge Kennedy

In some families, “please” is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was “sorry”.

- Margaret Laurence

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

- Bertrand Russell

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Barbara Bush

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

- Joyce Meyer

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

Call 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.

- Jane Howard

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

- Richard Bach

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

- Elizabeth Berg

I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience.

- Will Smith

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

- Barbara Bush

Call 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.

- Jane Howard

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

- Calire LaZebnik

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – – they are your family.

- Jim Butcher

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

- Brad Pitt

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

- Buddha

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

- Alice Sebold

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

- Albert Einstein

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

Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

- Mindy Kaling

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.

- Marge Kennedy

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

- Marge Kennedy

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

- S. Bryan

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

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

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

- Ralph Fiennes

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

- Michel de Montaigne

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.

- Jim Butcher

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

- Queen Elizabeth II

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Alex Haley

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.

- Jay McInerney

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

- Isaac Rosenfeld

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

- Mark V. Olsen

Call 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.

- Jane Howard

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

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

- Rodney Dangerfield

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

- Bo Bennett

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

- Amos Oz

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

- Sigmund Freud

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

- Debi Mazar

No family is sane, is it?

- Rebecca Hall

There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more... secure.

- Jim Butcher

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

- George W. Bush

Put your family in order.

- Jordan Peterson

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you’re an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.

- Andrea Lavinthal

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

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- George Burns

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

- George Burns

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

- Marge Kennedy

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

- George A Moore

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

- Douglas Coupland

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

- Francis Bacon

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

- Albert Einstein

Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.

- Wayne Dyer

My family is my strength and my weakness.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about.

- Jamie Ford

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

- Deborah Norville

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

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

- Mary Karr

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

- Pope John XXIII

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

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

- Thomas Jefferson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

- George W. Bush

Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

- Unknown

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

- Winnie The Pooh

Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.

- Pierce Brown

Never have more children than you have car windows.

- Erma Bombeck

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

- Spanish proverb

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

- Desmond Tutu

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

- Milton Sapirstein

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

- Pope John Paul II

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

- Mark V. Olsen

The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.

- Maxime Lagace

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

- Walt Whitman

That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

- Gemma Burgess

A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

- Helen Keller

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

- Abraham Lincoln

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean… For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

- Bertrand Piccard

Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.

- Unknown

Your greatest contribution may not be something you do but someone you raise.

- Unknown

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

- Sophocles

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare *

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

- Denis Waitley

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr

Your parents miss you and wish you’d call. Later you’ll miss them and wish you could.

- Paul Graham

Poor folks have neither any kindred nor any friends.

- Italian proverb

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

- Billy Graham

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

- Sherman Alexie

Home is the nicest word there is.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Children learn to smile from their parents.

- Shinichi Suzuki

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.

- Confucius

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

- Frank A. Clark

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.

- Cheryl Lacey Donovan

We’ve had bad luck with our kids - they’ve all grown up.

- Christopher Morley

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

- Malala Yousafzai

Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.

- Louisa May Alcott

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

- Carl Sandburg

There is always a reason to smile. Find it.

- Unknown

Never let anyone tell you that you can’t; show them that you can.

- Gloria Mallette

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

- Libba Bray

You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars.

- E.E. Cummings

The soul is healed by being with children.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Making the decision to have a child - it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

- Marilyn French

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.

- J.B. McGee

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

- Leigh Hunt

I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

- Barack Obama

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And she’s not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that’s a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

- Barack Obama

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

- Winnie The Pooh

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

- Garrison Keillor

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

- Harry S. Truman

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

- Angela Schwindt

The thrill of coming home has never changed.

- Guy Pearce

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

- Erma Bombeck

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.

- William Shakespeare

Let me love you a little more before you’re not little anymore.

- Unknown

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King Jr

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

- Stephanie Marston

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

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

- Sam Levenson

Home is not a place, it’s a feeling.

- Unknown

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Martin Luther

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender – these form the wealth of home.

- Sarah J. Hale

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

- Bob Keeshan

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

- Colette

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Eric Hoffer

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

- Mitt Romney

It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.

- Unknown

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

- Sidonie Gruenberg

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

- Christian Morgenstern

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

- Carl Jung

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

- Ben Carson

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

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.

- Shannon L. Alder

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

- Ann Brashares

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

I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

- Unknown

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.

- Jim Butcher

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

- Billy Graham

True love never dies, it only gets stronger with time.

- Manny Pacquiao

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

- Billy Graham