iStock They’re the ones who have your back when you need support; they’re the ones who cheer you on as you’re celebrating life’s successes; and they’re the ones who laugh with you (and only occasionally at you) during your silliest slip-ups. In honor of the people in your tribe–your people—give these inspirational quotes about family, from short ones to funny-yet-endearing quotes about family, a read. Because if you weren’t feeling the family love already, these 101 family quotes and sayings will inspire warm and fuzzy feelings for your favorite people—no matter how wacky the bunch may be!
101 Family Quotes - Quotes About Family
- “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
- “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. “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” –Coco
- “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach 6. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” - George Bernard Shaw 7. “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
- “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
- “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
- “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo 11. The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
- “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.” – Jim Butcher
- “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” — Barbara Bush 14. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
- “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 17. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
- “Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
- “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 20. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana 21. “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
- “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.¨ — Khalil Gibran
- “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
- ¨A man should never neglect his family for business.” — Walt Disney
- “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
- ¨Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.¨ — Margaret Mead
- “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
- ¨There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.¨ — Jerry Seinfeld
- “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
- ¨You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.¨ — Desmond Tutu
- “Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”― Chuck Palahniuk
- “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” – Marge Kennedy
- “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
- ¨I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”― Matt Groening
- “Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
- “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” –Harry Morgan
- “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
- “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
- “Family is family.” – Linda Linney
- “In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
- “If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”― Jonathan Safran Foer
- “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
- “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”― Walt Whitman
- “The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
- “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
- “My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ― Rick Riordan
- “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein
- “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” –Romans 12:9
- “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom
- “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
- “It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” – Philip Green
- “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ― George Bernard Shaw 54. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”― Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” –John C. Maxwell
- “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares
- “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
- “Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” – Wanda Hope Carter
- “Friends are the family you choose.”― Jess C. Scott
- “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ― Anthony Brandt
- “Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” – Niki Taylor
- “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
- I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” — Barbara Bush
- “The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” — Louis Zamperini
- “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” – Michael Imperioli
- “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
- “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” — Menacheim Begin
- “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
- “That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.” ― Cassandra Clare
- “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – Stitch
- “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”― Rick Riordan
- “The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt 74. “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
- “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” — Lilly Singh
- “Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf
- “I sustain myself with the love of family.”― Maya Angelou
- “Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” – Courtland Milloy 80. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy 81. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney
- “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” – Walt Disney 83.“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”― Stieg Larsson
- “A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – 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
- “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown
- “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” — Mary Karr
- “Family is the most important thing in the world.” — Princess Diana
- “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” — Paul Pearsall 90. “Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts.” — Les Dawson
- “Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” — Martin Mull
- “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore 93. “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire 94. “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
- “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
- “My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.” — Siri Hustvedt
- “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” – Guy Lafleur
- “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” ― Kristin Hannah
- “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.” — José Carreras
- “In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future."— Alex Haley Check out… 101 Blended Family Quotes100 Adoption Quotes50 Sister Quotes50 Caregiver Quotes100 Inspirational Quotes
