About Family Quotes:

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

- Ian Astbury

topic: Winter, Depth, About Family

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

- Gabe Newell

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Important, Narrative, About Family

It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Enough, Family Values, About Family

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

- Claire LaZebnik

topic: Family, Lying, Agency, Inspirational Family Love, About Family

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

- Jim Butcher

topic: Family, Home, Insane, Inspirational Family Love, About Family

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, Family, Children, Inspirational Family Love, Vocabulary Words

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.92, Broadway Books

topic: Family, Knowing, Giving, Love And Family, Love Your Family

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

- Mitch Albom

topic: Family, Children, Believe, About Family, Pristine

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Country, Motherhood, Matter, Social Service, Inspirational Family Love

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

- Willie Stargell

topic: Family, Smile, Streets, Closeness, Family Values

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

source: "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

topic: Family, Cousin, Giving Up, Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Things I've Learned

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

- Eva Burrows

topic: Blessing, Family Love, Being Blessed, Inspirational Family, Spiritual Family

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

topic: Friendship, Book, Two, Bff, Togetherness

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Family, Spiritual, Respect, Happy Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Family, Everyday, Principles, Spiritual Family, Hammered

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

- Ann Brashares

source: Twitter post from Dec 14, 2012

topic: Life, Family, Love You, Inspirational Family Love, Love And Family

I sustain myself with the love of family.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cousin, Happy Family, Love And Family

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Family, Home, Care, Happy Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

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

topic: Family, Home, Doubt, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

source: Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Family, Circles, Orange, Happy Family, Large Family

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

topic: Family, God, Home, Invisible Monsters, About Family

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

- Denzel Washington

topic: Life, Family, Acting, Inspirational Family, About Family

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

topic: Family, Son, Parent, Contempt You, Love Your Family

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

topic: Family, Passion, Life Is Like, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

topic: Family, Blood, Water, Funny Family Reunion, About Family

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

source: Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Family, Progress, Would Be, About Family

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

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

topic: Family, Home, Trying, Beautiful Family, About Family

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

- Robert Breault

topic: Family, Pie, Perfect, Love Life And Family, Perfect Family

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

- Mitch Albom

topic: Family, Our Family, Happy Family, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

topic: Family, Wall, People, Most Important Things In Life, Four Walls

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

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Motivational, Family, Leaving Home, Parent Child

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

- Bobby Darin

topic: Family, Guy, Different, Inspirational Family, Family First

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Funny, Family, Share, Nuclear Families, Dysfunctional Family

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.

- Isaac Rosenfeld

source: Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”

topic: Family, Children, Giving, Inspirational Family Love, Love Your Family

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Family, Gratitude, Children, Inspirational Family Love, Love And Family

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

- Brad Henry

topic: Family, Inspiration, Comfort, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

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

source: Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate”, Spectra

topic: Inspirational, Family, Home, Inspirational Family Love, Family Home

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

- Dodie Smith

source: Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

topic: Funny, Family, Heart, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

topic: Family, Racism, Role Models, Snickers, Ending Racism

The family. We are 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. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Character, Trying, Brothers And Sisters, Life Is Pain

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

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Large Family, Family Unit

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

topic: Family, Heaven, Being Thankful, Family First, Love Life And Family

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Life, Family, Spiritual, Buddhist Monk, Happy Family

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

- Joyce Brothers

source: "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

topic: Life, Family, Happiness, Happy Family, Large Family

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

- Barbara Bush

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Family, Family Connections, Love Your Family

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

- Guy Lafleur

topic: Family, Support, Trouble, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

- Alex Haley

source: "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Family, Meaningful, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

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?

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Family, Wise, Humanity, Happy Family, Inspirational Family