Inspirational Family Quotes
1.“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” –Peter Buffett
2.“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
3.“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers
4.”If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
5.“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 any more.”- Robin Hobb
6.”Family is family, whether it’s the one you start out with the one you end up with, or the family you gain along the way.” – Unknown
7.”To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.” –Tia Walker
8.“Family is the most important thing in the world.”- Princess Diana
9.“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”- Leigh Anne Tuohy
10.“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”- George A. Moore
11.“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
12.“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
Blessed Family Quotes
1.”The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
2.“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” –Coco
3.”A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
4.“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
5.”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
6.“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
7.“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” – Kendall Hailey
8.“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
9.“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
Cute Family Quotes
- “Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”
2. “The bigger your family, the bigger your problems.”
3.”Family is like that annoying itch you can’t scratch.”
4. “Caller ID was invented for family screening.”
5. “Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member does or says.”
6. “It only takes two to make a family.”
7. “The love of your family wraps around you like a blanket, hugging you no matter the distance.”
8. “A family that eats s’mores together sticks together.”
9. “A good family is like an old recipe. You just keep making tweaks until you get it right.”
10. “Family is a snow cone on a hot summer day.”
11. “There’s no fairy tale family, but there are plenty of magical moments.”
12. “The best families are the ones that forget there’s an “I” in family.”
13. “A family without chaos is like a summer without sun.”
Importance of Family Quotes
1.“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.”-Jane Austen
2.“I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.” –Jilly Cooper
3.“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”-Thomas Jefferson
4.”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
5.”The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” – Charles Kuralt
6.”Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
7.”Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” – Andre Maurois
8.”The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
9.”The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
10.”A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” – George Moore
11.”I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou
12.”Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
13.”You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” – Elizabeth Berg
14.”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
Funny Family Quotes
1.“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
2.“I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.” –Anthony Anderson
3.“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” –George Bernard Shaw
4.“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” –Rick Riordan
5.“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.” –Fred Allen
6.“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” –George Carlin
7.”After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – Oscar Wilde.
8.“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
9.“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.” –Nancy Mitford
10.”Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.” – Chelsea Handler
11.”Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.” – Jerry Seinfeld
12.”The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” – Jean Kerr
13.”Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” – Jim Bishop
14.”Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” – Ray Romano
15.”There are only two things a child will share willingly — communicable diseases and his mother’s age.” – Benjamin Spock
Beautiful Family Quotes
1.”A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” –Agatha Christie
2.“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” -J.K. Rowling
3.”I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world.” -Louise May Alcott
4.“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
5.“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
6.“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” – Johnny Depp
7.“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
8.“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.” – Buddha
9.“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
10.“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”– Lee Iacocca
11.“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
12.“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”– Marjorie Pay Hinckley
13.“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
14.“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Henry Ward Beecher
15.“A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16.“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
17.“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
Strong Family Quotes
1.“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” –John Wooden
2.“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” –Irina Shayk
3.“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” –Barbara Bush
4.“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
5.“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” –Anthony Brandt
6.“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
7.We must take care of our families wherever we find them. – Elizabeth Gilbert
8.”When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” – GuyLafleur
9.”Nobody knows you or understands you like family.” – Scarlet Paolicchi
10.“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
.11.“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
12.“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
13.“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
Family is Everything Quotes
1.“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
2.“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
3.“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.”- Michael Imperioli
4.“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” –Charles Kuralt
5.“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” – Paul Pearsall
6.“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.” –Alex Haley
7.“It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” –Menacheim Begin
8.“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
9.“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.”- Jim Butcher
10.“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
Happy Family Quotes
1.“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” –Richard Bach
2.“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
3.“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” –Brad Henry
4.“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” –Lee Iacocca
5.“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” –Guy Lafleur
6.“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
7.“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” – Kendall Hailey
8.“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” – Louis Zamperini
9.“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” – Miguel from “Coco”
10.”I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.” – Jet Li
11.“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” – John C. Maxwell
Short Quotes on Family
1.“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
2.“The memories we make with our family is everything.” – Candace Cameron Bure
3.“Family is family.” – Linda Linney
4.“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
5.“In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
6.”I sustain myself with the love of a family” – Maya Angelou
7.“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.” – Margaret Atwood
8.“Family is an anchor during rough waters.”
9.“Family is where life begins, and love never ends.”
10.“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein
11.“A family is a little world created with love.”
12.“Family knows your flaws but loves you, anyway.”
13.“Where there is family, there is love.”
14.“Family is the heart of a home.”
15.“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
16.“The family is God’s great masterpiece.”
Long Distance Family Quotes
1.“I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.”- Jilly Cooper
2.“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” –Thomas Jefferson
3.“There’s no shame in feeling homesick. It means you come from a happy home.”-Mrs. Hughes
4.“Missing someone is part of loving them. Not until you are apart do you realize how much they mean to you.”- Nikhil Saluja
5.“The ache for home lives in all of us. The place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”- Maya Angelou
6.“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
7.“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”- Jodi Picoult
8.“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”- Wendy Wunder
9.Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
10.Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found. – Dorothea S. Kopplin
11.Family is the most important thing in the world. – Princess Diana
12. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal
Family Quotes from Movies
1.”Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – Stitch
2.”Because when I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you and I’m home.” – Dory
3.”We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” – Miguel
4.”The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.” – Fa Zhou
5. “All right, that’s it! Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole family. Make a note of this. Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow…”
Eddie Murphy as Mushu in Mulan
6. “You spend time with your family? -Sure I do. -Good. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” –Vito Corleone
7. “Dishonor will come to the family. Traditional values will disintegrate.” –Mulan
8.“Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” – Walt Disney
9. “Your son got angry at you. Welcome to parenthood!” –Mr. Ping
10. “Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s future.” –Cooper
11.Being part of a family means smiling for photos. –Harry Morgan
12. “Oh, so that’s it, you lost your family? That makes you something special, does it? ” –Pappagallo
13. “I hate even the word “family”. It’s vague. “Mom” is more specific.” – Pete Campbell
14. “I don’t have friends, I got family.” -Dominic Toretto
15. “All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory – family!”- Tywin Lannister
16.”Family” means – no one gets left behind.”-(Lilo
17. “You know, people always say that you can’t choose your parents, but you can’t choose your children.” –Herbert Greenleaf