Beautiful word about family

Last updated: 03/10/15

I sustain myself with the love of family.-Maya Angelou

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

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.-Buddha

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


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


When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. -Jim Butcher

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

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

Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got. -Rose Cherin

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

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.-Michael J. Fox

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.-Ugo Betti

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

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.-David Ogden Stiers

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.-George Bernard Shaw

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.-George Santayana

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.-Charles R. Swindoll

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution of the world.-Amos Oz

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

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.-Mark V. Olsen


Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

In the end, family is all we have, my dear. You’ll do well to remember that.-Katie Jennings

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

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

The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother.-Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.-Stephen Chbosky

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.-Princess Diana

Family is what works.-Ian McDonalds

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

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

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

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

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

My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.-Nicholas Sparks

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.-Jack Layton

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.-Mitch Albom

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.-Abraham Lincoln

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.-J.S. Bryan

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

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.-Bill Cosby

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

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.-Anais Nin

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

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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You certainly didn’t ask for them, and you can’t trade ’em, but they’re the ones who know you best.

They’re the ones who cherish you, and whom you should cherish in return – whether they’re your biological family or otherwise.

Even though it’s easy to forget at times, family is the most important thing in the world.

This could mean your mother, your father, your siblings, your spouse, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, your in-laws. For some, “family” simply those with whom we share unconditional love.

Of course, families are complicated. These deep relationships can carry lots of baggage and hurt as well. Given their importance in our loves, it’s no wonder people throughout history are fascinated with the intricacies of familial love.

So no matter how you feel about them, hopefully these quotes about family will help you love and appreciate them no matter how close you are.

JK Rowling quote "Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life"

“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.

Michael J. Fox

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

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

Mother Teresa

Family is more than blood.

Cassandra Clare

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

Wanda Hope Carter

Desmond Tutu quote "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them"

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anthony Brandt

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Lilo & Stitch

Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.

Unknown

George Santayana quote "Family is one of nature's masterpieces"

“Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

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

William Butler Yeats

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Vito Corleone, The Godfather

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

Mark V. Olsen

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.

Jim Butcher

San Levenson family quote "Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they got together"

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they got together.” – Sam Levenson

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

George Moore

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

Jim Butcher

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

John Wooden

Family: where life begins and love never ends.

Unknown

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

Anonymous quote "Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts"

“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.” – Unknown

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

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

Irina Shayk

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leo Tolstoy quote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Jonathan Foer

God is the designer of the family.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Barbara Bush

George Bernard Shaw quote "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance"

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

Pat Conroy

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

Brad Henry

Siri Hustvedt quote "My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family"

“My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.” – Siri Hustvedt

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

Anthony Liccione

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

Alex Haley

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

Unknown

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

Leo Christopher family quote "There's only one thing more precious than our time and that's who we spend it on"

“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher

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

Bobby Darin

The memories we make with our family are everything.

Candace Cameron Bure

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

Philip Green

Family is family.

Linda Linney

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

George Burns quote “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

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

Chinese Proverb

Being part of a family means smiling for photos.

Harry Morgan

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

Unknown

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

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

Elizabeth Gilbert quote “We must take care of our families wherever we find them”

“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

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

Jerry Seinfeld quote “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family”

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” – Jerry Seinfeld

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

Michael Imperioli

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

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

Niki Taylor

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

Maya Angelou quote “I sustain myself with the love of family”

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou

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

Guy Lafleur

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

Arundhati Roy

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

Andre Maurois

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

Confucius

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

Mary Karr

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

John Maxwell quote "Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness"

“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” – John C. Maxwell

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

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

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

Mitch Albom quote “Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know”

“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.” – Mitch Albom

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

Unknown

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

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

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

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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

Jodi Picoult family quote "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"

“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

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

Albert Einstein

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

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

Calire LaZebnik

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

Barbara Bush

Mitch Albom quote “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family”

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom

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

Elizabeth Berg

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

Lee Iacocca

In time of test, family is best.

Burmese Proverb

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

Louis Zamperini

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

Douglas Coupland

Peter Pearsall quote "Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family"

“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” – Peter Pearsall

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

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Willie Stargell

Agatha Christie family quote “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no awe, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path”

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no awe, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

Whether your family lives close, or thousands of miles away, they are the ones you can turn to when times get tough. Celebrate your amazing bond and show your appreciation for them today!

Family is one of the most important, if not the most important thing in our lives. Taking time every day to appreciate your loved ones for all that they do helps us to reconnect as a family. For that reason, we’ve provided a collection of our favorite family quotes and sayings that remind us of the love shared between family members. These family quotes and family sayings are perfect to celebrate your love for your family members.

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  • Family Love Quotes
  • Funny Family Quotes
  • Short Family Quotes
  • Religious and Bible Quotes About Family
  • Family And Friends Quotes
  • Inspirational Family Quotes
  • Blended Family Quotes
  • Disney Quotes About Family
  • Cute Family Quotes
  • Support Quotes

The basic connection between family will always be love. Remind your parents, siblings, cousins, children, or other of this with the following quotes.

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

the most important thing in the world is family and love quote

Funny Family Quotes

Humor can help ease the tension within your family when things get tough. If you need a light-hearted reminder of the funny side of family, look to the quotes below. These quotes about family help keep everything light – they’re perfect to add to personalized greeting card or new address Christmas card to send out to the extended family and close friends.

  • “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
  • “Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
  • “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” –Harry Morgan
  • “Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”

Short Quotes

Short and simple, these family quotes get straight to the point. Even though all families are complicated, the shortest quotes about family can manage to say everything.

  • “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
  • “The memories we make with our family is everything.” –Candace Cameron Bure
  • “Family is family.” –Linda Linney
  • “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” –George Santayana
  • “In time of test, family is best.” –Burmese Proverb

family isn't an important thing, family is everything quote

Religious and Bible Quotes About Family

The bible has always encouraged strong family ties and loving familial bonds. Some of our favorite religious quotes about family can be found below. Use these quotes to show your loved ones what’s most important to you.

  • “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
  • “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” –Pope John XXIII
  • “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, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” –1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” –Romans 12:9

Quotes for Family And Friends

Sometimes friends feel like family and family act like friends. If you’re looking for quotes that put the two together, we’ve gathered them for you below.

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

treat your friends like family and family like friends quote

Inspirational Family Quotes

Need an extra dose of inspiration for your day? These inspirational family quotes may just do the trick. One of the best ways to use inspirational quotes about family is on office accessories.

  • “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” –Michael Imperioli
  • “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
  • “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

Blended Family Quotes

A family can be either something you’re born into or something you work at. If you’re a part of a blended family full of friends, half-siblings, step-moms, step-dad, and more, a family quote about your family can celebrate how unique it is. Here are our top blended family quotes:

  • “Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.”
  • “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” –Winston Churchill
  • “Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.”
  • “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.”
  • “Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
  • “I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you.”

Disney Quotes About Family

Sometimes Disney says it best. If you’re looking for Disney inspired family sayings, look no further

  • “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

Cute Family Quotes

Some family quotes are too cute not to share. Here are our favorite picks from simple sweet statements about family.

  • “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

family gives us the roots to stand tall and strong quote

Support Quotes

Family supports you no matter what, and that’s what the following quotes highlight.

  • “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, 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

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Family is the most beautiful bond we share and cherish among our dearest and the nearest ones, those connected by blood, heart or mind. And it is the fundamental basis for a child to start his social life. As a social human being, no human can stay separate or left abandoned.

To make life meaningful, enjoyful and get continual support, everyone needs a family. Trust, Love and Support in the family are the true treasure of family life. More than a die-hard fan, family shows its strength in times of troubles.

Speaking about family is always insufficient in words. However, we have tried to depict the family need, its importance through Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings with nature photographs.

Enjoy the collection of Family Quotes!

Top 100 Family Quotes | 110 Loving Quotes About Family

Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings

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“Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.”
― James May

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“Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.”
― Neil Kurshan

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“The family is the school of duties – founded on love.”
― Felix Adler

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“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”
― Jim Butcher

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“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.”
― Herbert V. Prochnow

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“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

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“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
― Confucius

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“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

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“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
― Zig Ziglar

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“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
― Alex Haley

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“Family… a group experience of love and support.”
― Marianne Williamson

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“Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.”
― Ezra Miller

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“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
― Mother Teresa

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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“Everybody’s family has different values.”
― Lewis Black

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“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom

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“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 Weedn

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“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
― David Ogden Stiers

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“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

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“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
― Brad Henry

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“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
― Alex Haley

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

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“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

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“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
― Pope John Paul II

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“It’s nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you’re closer to them by love.”
― Olivier Martinez

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“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.”
― Bo Bennett

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“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown

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“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
― Michael J. Fox

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“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
― Walt Disney

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“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”
― Bill Cosby

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“The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.”
― Clayton M. Christensen

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“Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.”
― Romeo Miller

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“Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”
― Zig Ziglar

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“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
― George Santayana

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“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
― Jesse Jackson

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“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
― Eva Burrows

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“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
― Lee Iacocca

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“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
― Ann Brashares

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“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

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“It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
― Friedrich Schiller

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“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
― Anita Baker

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“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

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“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
― Mother Teresa

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“You can’t have a happy family if you don’t have a happy marriage.”
― Jeremy Sisto

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“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
― Elizabeth Berg

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

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

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“Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.”
― J.S. Bryan

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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

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“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
― Mark V. Olsen

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“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”
― Maya Angelou

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“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

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“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
― Anthony Liccione

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“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
― Cassandra Clare

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“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
― Orlando Aloysius Battista

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“Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.”
― Jennifer Ellison

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“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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“Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.”
― Bar Refaeli

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“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
― Marge Kennedy

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“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
― Charles Kuralt

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“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
― Christian Morgenstern

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“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”
― Margaret Mead

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“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”
― Christopher Love

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“Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.”
― Melanie Shankle

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“The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.”
― Billy Graham

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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
― Anthony Brandt

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“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
― Peter Buffett

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“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
― John C. Maxwell

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“Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.”
― Benjamin Todd Jealous

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“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
― Christopher Lasch

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“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
― Joyce Brothers

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

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“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
― Barbara Bush

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“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
― Wanda Hope Carter

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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
― Theodore Hesburgh

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“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”
― Ralph Fiennes

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“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”
― Barbara Bush

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“Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
― Walt Disney

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“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
― Mario Puzo

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“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
― Desmond Tutu

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“People come and go in our lives, but a beauty of life is that our family is always there.”
― Catherine Pulsifer

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“You have to defend your honor. And your family.”
― Suzanne Vega

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“You inherited a piece of everyone in your family, insult them, insult yourself.”
― Marcelina Hardy

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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
― Pope John XXIII

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“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life.”
― Matthew Quick

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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
― Andre Maurois

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“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.”
― Elizabeth Edwards

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“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”
― Winston Churchill

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“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
― Charles R. Swindoll

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“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
― Albert Einstein

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

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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

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“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
― John Wooden

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“Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.”
― Peace Pilgrim

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“Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.”
― Ronald Reagan

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“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“You don’t have to give birth to someone to have a family. We’re all family – an extended family.”
― Sandra Bullock

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“All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”
― Sigmund Freud

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“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
― Gail Lumet Buckley

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“Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.”
― Matt Groening

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“There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.”
― Ryan Dunn

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“Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”
― Grace Kelly

Family life is everything. Taking care of each members of family is the topmost priority of everyone, which no one should ignore. Only then we can move towards a healthy society and then nation.

Hope you liked the beautiful collection of Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings.

Leave your valuable comment below and feel free to share your favorite family quotes from the collection.

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Family is certainly one of the most important things in life. Our parents and siblings are with us during good times and bad. They show unconditional love and they support no matter what.

However, families can get complicated at times. During those moments, it’s easy to temporarily forget what they mean to us.

As a way to remind you about the importance of your loved ones, here are 35 amazing quotes about family.

Family… where life begins and love never ends.

Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts. – Melanie Shankle

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. – Elizabeth Edwards

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

quotes about wealth family

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

Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing. – Donna Hedges

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

quotes about togetherness family

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

Happiness keeps you sweet. Trials keep you strong. Sorrows keep you human. Failure keeps you humble. Success keeps you glowing. Friends and family keep you going.

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox

quotes about everything family

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

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

I sustain myself with the love of family. – Maya Angelou

quotes about love family

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

No family is perfect, we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at time. But in the end, family is family, the love will always be there.

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

quotes about wonderful family

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

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

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. – Mark V. Olsen

The family is the first essential cell of human society. – Pope John XXIII

quotes about society family

When you look at your life, the greatest happiness is family happiness. – Joyce Brothers

In every conceivable manner, the family is linked to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley

Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. – Stitch, “Lilo and Stitch”

quotes about ohana family

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

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. – Paul Pearsall

quotes about survival family

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. – Buddha

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

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life. – J. K. Rowling

quotes about life family

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

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

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

quotes about perfect family

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

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

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

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