When you think about it, a family is quite an odd unit - a bunch of people that you have to get along with despite the differences. Of course, we aren’t talking about extreme cases when the best thing you can do is cut all the strings of attachment from them, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s just stick to the happy median of a somewhat functional family. So, a bunch of pretty random people that you have to find common ground with. It gets messy with differing views and exaggerated emotions at times, but if you manage to get it all right, a loving family might be one of the best things humans know. And these beautiful family quotes will be talking precisely about such cases!
So, in the case of getting it right, a family turns into a real tight-knit clan - it’s like the three musketeers where one stands for all and all stand for one. Add in a copious amount of unconditional love, and there you have it - a family. For those few of us who have that feeling entering the leagues of our extended family - uncles, aunts, cousins, and all the rest - it’s like living in an entirely different world where you are always understood, challenged to be better, and supported by likeminded people every step of the way. So yeah, these family quotes will celebrate that and share the joys of unequivocal kinship with you.
Now is probably the time to scroll down to the happy family quotes, don’t you think? Once you are there, vote for the moving quotes that gave you that warm feeling inside and share this heartening selection with the best people around you - your family.
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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.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – Robert Brault
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” — Margaret Mead
I wish it was that way for me. I have been well aware since about the age of 3 that my older sister actually hated me. Caused me a lot of grief right up to the time I was about 45 and just gave up even caring :)
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or happier, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”― Jonathan Safran Foer
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares
“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
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore
“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
“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
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.” – Jim Butcher
“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
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
“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
“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”― Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“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
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown
“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
“The strength of family isn't determined by the number of members, but rather by the amount of love given and received.”
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
“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 don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” — Desmond Tutu
“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
“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 family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
“My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ― Rick Riordan
“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
“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
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” – Niki Taylor
“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt
“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” – Courtland Milloy
“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
“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
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” —Ogden Nash
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can't.”
“A family creates a safe space for each member to grow and develop into the person they are meant to be.”
“When you are lost in the darkness, the love of your family is the light that guides you through.”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“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
“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
“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
“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you as 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
“It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” — Menacheim Begin
“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
“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
“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” — Lilly Singh
“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.” — Barbara Bush
“Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.”
“Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member does or says.”
“The love of your family wraps around you like a blanket, hugging you no matter the distance.”
