281 Family quotes

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

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.

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

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable

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.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible

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

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.

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.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

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

Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

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

Family is the heart of a home.

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.

Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.

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

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

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.

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.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Family history is a history dramatized…. If the history of a particular family is searched, it is because it is searchable, not because it is great. Great and small are terms of ignorance, in regard of historic causation…. To tell the story of one family is to tell what is essential in the story of all…. All families are equally ancient.

Family is the best thing you could ever wish for. They are there for you during the ups and downs and love you no matter what.

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.

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

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

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.

I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.

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

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

Families are like fudge

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.

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

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

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

My family is more important than my party.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they’re all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister – because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

I’m very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

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

I’m a minimalist. I don’t really need much to enjoy a good holiday – just my family and the bare essentials.

I look to my family for my support. I’m fortunate to have a big family.

I am most thankful for my family and how they support me so much and the love they share with me.

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

My family provided me with the proper information and inspiration for me to overcome the challenge of blindness.

My family was my guide to my reality.

At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I’m going to do what’s best for them.

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.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I’m a happy guy. I like to joke around. I’m irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I’m just an easy and happy guy.

In my career, there are many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. Its’ about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Family is family.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

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

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

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

A house is built by hands, but a home is built by heart.

Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Everybody’s family has different values.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

Being part of a family means smiling for photos.

Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

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

The most important thing is family and love.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

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

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

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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

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

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

Family: where life begins and love never ends.

Where there is family, there is love.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

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

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

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

The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.

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

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.

Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones you accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you you no matter what.

Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.

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.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.

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.

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

I’m a lucky person because I’ve been loved a lot. I have a great family.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

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

A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

I can’t complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.

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.

I’m a strong person, I’m a strong family man, I’m a strong husband and a strong father.

If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go – you’ll find family.

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

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

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

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children.

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.

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

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

In time of test, family is best.

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I’m spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be ‘with my family.’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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.

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.

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that’s what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

There is a great work/home life balance that you need to achieve. If you let your home life eat into your work life, you lose motivation quickly and if work life imposes too much on your family time, then your family time becomes less satisfactory.

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.

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.

There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.

Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

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

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.

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

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

My family and I are so close, it’s important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I’m very family-oriented.

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.

I’d like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

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

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

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

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

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

Acboss the range of diverse experiences and traditions that have been written into our Nation’s story, family has remained a steadfast and common foundation. Every day, families offer comfort and support to one another with enduring and unconditional love and they contribute to their communities and our country. During National Family Week, we uplift and honor the families that give so much to forge a brighter future for themselves and for America…. As we reminisce on warm memories and share in the joy and love family can provide, let us also pledge to lift up our loved ones and recommit to the family bonds that have strengthened the fabric of our Nation.

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

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

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

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

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.

Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.

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.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn’t matter what you go through in your life. You’re going to be okay.

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

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

Family and God – that is what’s important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

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.

Even in the last generation exceptional young people who betrayed any interest in their ancestors were apt to be snubbed, and old family papers were abandoned to the mice. But gradually interest in genealogy crept back. Some families began to suspect that the mice had eaten their titles to English estates; the new science of heredity had attractions for a people disgusted with vulgar plutocracy. It is now pretty well understood in America that a family tree is no Upas, but a good fruit tree.

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.

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

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

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching

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

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

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just a worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

You can’t have a happy family if you don’t have a happy marriage.

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

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.

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life – my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

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

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.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

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

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

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.

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

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that Members not Present and Subjects Discussed were one and the same.

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

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie

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

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.

Let your friends and family officially know what your new venture is. Don’t miss this step. So often people start a business and think all their friends and family might know, but really they don’t.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

Family, friends and the typical attitudes of society will, at different stages, try to tell you what you ‘should’ be doing with your life.

I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends.

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

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

The one thing I’ve always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don’t worry about being judged by others who don’t know you, because your family and close friends know what you’re all about, good and bad.

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

When I think of any of my successes, I am thankful to God from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends who enrich my life.

I’m surrounded by great friends and family. I don’t know what I would do without them.

Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.

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

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

Never be afraid to ask for help, especially when you have good friends or family who are likely more than willing to help out.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

I’m passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin’ to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn’t be an oddity.

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

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 years, but I would eat them.

I’ve got a really good family; I’ve got great friends around me.

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

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

It’s nice to have friends, but it’s better when your friends are family.

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

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

If you don’t have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it’s no good.

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

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.

Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.

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

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

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

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.

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

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.

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

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.

I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you’ll be fine.

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.

It’s very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

The family unit is the first group of people that you are a part of. While there are obvious exceptions, there’s usually an intrinsic trust that is built in to your family.

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.

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

Work is work, but the family is for life. That’s what really matters to me.

My priority is to hang out with the ones I love – my family, my loved ones.

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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

Having a place to go

The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.

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

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I’d be now.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

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

Life is precious and relationships are precious. I’m a great believer in family.

I know every family has its problems. But I admire those that stick together.

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

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

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.

I’m just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.

Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily solved, while others can last a lifetime.

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.

Family problems are like personal issues, they are unique and different for every individual.

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

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and nurtured, even when it is difficult.

Family problems are often a result of a lack of communication and understanding.

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

Family problems are not always caused by the actions of one person, but rather the result of a complex web of relationships.

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.

Family problems are like a maze; it takes patience, understanding, and perseverance to find the way out.

Family problems are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength, because they require us to be brave and face our fears.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Family problems are like a stormy sea; it may be rough and unpredictable, but it can also bring moments of calm and tranquility.

Family problems are not something to be ashamed of. They are a normal part of life that we all face at some point.

The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.