Quotes about family

Quotes about family

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis,"

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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

Albert Einstein

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Johann Schiller

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Family: where life begins and love never ends.

 Unknown

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The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Attributed to Christopher Lasch

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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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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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

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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

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

Marge Kennedy

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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

George Santayana

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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Phyllis Diller

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

Marquise de Sévigné

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

Robert Braul

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

Anthony Brandt

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

Gail Lumet Buckley

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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,

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 

George Bernard Shaw

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. 

Cary Grant

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My family is my strength and my weakness.

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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

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A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Tom DeLay

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

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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

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

Robert Brault

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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