Family Quotes
Welcome to Family Quotes. Here you will find famous quotes and quotations about family.
Family Quotes and Quotations
In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
With all my fans I got a family again. ~Tupac Shakur
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ~George Bernard Shaw
Actors are one family over the entire world. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
A man should never neglect his family for business. ~Walt Disney
Family is the most important thing in the world. ~Princess Diana
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. ~Erma Bombeck
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Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown
And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. ~Rodney Dangerfield
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ~Richard Bach
I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. ~Barack Obama
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
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Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. ~Charlie Sheen
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~Leo Tolstoy
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ~Pope John Paul II
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ~Oscar Wilde
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. ~George Carlin
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. ~Walt Disney
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. ~Robert Brault
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
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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Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing. ~Donna Hedges
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ~Bertrand Russell
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson
'Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten. ~Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. ~Henry David Thoreau
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ~Chanakya
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At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"
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
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman
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
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
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault
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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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. ~Marie Curie
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
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work. ~Michael Jackson
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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. ~Tupac Shakur
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ~Douglas Adams
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. ~Vince Lombardi
The great 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
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by 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
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. ~Angelina Jolie
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
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. ~Chanakya
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. ~Barack Obama
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. ~Harry Houdini 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
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. ~Pope John Paul II
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. ~Johnny Depp
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~Frank Sinatra
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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
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ~Lao Tzu
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall
Family Quotes and Quotations
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. ~Barack Obama
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ~Barack Obama
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck
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
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." ~Stephen King