You certainly didn’t ask for them, and you can’t trade ’em, but they’re the ones who know you best.
They’re the ones who cherish you, and whom you should cherish in return – whether they’re your biological family or otherwise.
Even though it’s easy to forget at times, family is the most important thing in the world.
This could mean your mother, your father, your siblings, your spouse, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, your in-laws. For some, “family” simply those with whom we share unconditional love.
Of course, families are complicated. These deep relationships can carry lots of baggage and hurt as well. Given their importance in our loves, it’s no wonder people throughout history are fascinated with the intricacies of familial love.
So no matter how you feel about them, hopefully these quotes about family will help you love and appreciate them no matter how close you are.
Family Quotes
Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.
Michael J. Fox
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa
Family is more than blood.
Cassandra Clare
Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.
Wanda Hope Carter
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney
Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Lilo & Stitch
Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.
Unknown
No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.
William Butler Yeats
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Vito Corleone, The Godfather
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
Mark V. Olsen
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.
Jim Butcher
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.
Jim Butcher
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
Family: where life begins and love never ends.
Unknown
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.
Menacheim Begin
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
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.
Irina Shayk
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.
Unknown
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
Chinese Proverb
Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Martin Luther
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Jonathan Foer
God is the designer of the family.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Barbara Bush
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Richard Bach
A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
Pat Conroy
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
In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.
Unknown
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.
Marvin J. Ashton
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
Bobby Darin
The memories we make with our family are everything.
Candace Cameron Bure
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
Family is family.
Linda Linney
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb
Being part of a family means smiling for photos.
Harry Morgan
Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t!
Unknown
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
Trenton Lee Stewart
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
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.
Robert Byrd
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.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
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
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.
Michael Imperioli
Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
Unknown
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.
Niki Taylor
The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
Peter Buffett
When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.
Guy Lafleur
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
Arundhati Roy
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Mary Karr
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
G.K. Chesterton
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.
Winston Churchill
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.
Marge Kennedy
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 family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.
Unknown
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
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
Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!
Albert Einstein
Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde
No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.
Calire LaZebnik
When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.
Barbara Bush
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
In time of test, family is best.
Burmese Proverb
The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.
Louis Zamperini
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
Douglas Coupland
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 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.
Frederick Buechner
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Willie Stargell
Whether your family lives close, or thousands of miles away, they are the ones you can turn to when times get tough. Celebrate your amazing bond and show your appreciation for them today!