Family is the most beautiful bond we share and cherish among our dearest and the nearest ones, those connected by blood, heart or mind. And it is the fundamental basis for a child to start his social life. As a social human being, no human can stay separate or left abandoned.
To make life meaningful, enjoyful and get continual support, everyone needs a family. Trust, Love and Support in the family are the true treasure of family life. More than a die-hard fan, family shows its strength in times of troubles.
Speaking about family is always insufficient in words. However, we have tried to depict the family need, its importance through Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings with nature photographs.
Enjoy the collection of Family Quotes!
Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings
(100)
“Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.”
― James May
(99)
“Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.”
― Neil Kurshan
(98)
“The family is the school of duties – founded on love.”
― Felix Adler
(97)
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”
― Jim Butcher
(96)
“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.”
― Herbert V. Prochnow
(95)
“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
(94)
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
― Confucius
(93)
“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
(92)
“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”
― Zig Ziglar
(91)
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
― Alex Haley
(90)
“Family… a group experience of love and support.”
― Marianne Williamson
(89)
“Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.”
― Ezra Miller
(88)
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
― Mother Teresa
(87)
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw
(86)
“Everybody’s family has different values.”
― Lewis Black
(85)
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom
(84)
“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 Weedn
(83)
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
― David Ogden Stiers
(82)
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
(81)
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
― Brad Henry
(80)
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
― Alex Haley
(79)
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
― Eva Burrows
(78)
“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
(77)
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
― Pope John Paul II
(76)
“It’s nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you’re closer to them by love.”
― Olivier Martinez
(75)
“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.”
― Bo Bennett
(74)
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown
(73)
“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
― Michael J. Fox
(72)
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
― Walt Disney
(71)
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”
― Bill Cosby
(70)
“The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.”
― Clayton M. Christensen
(69)
“Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.”
― Romeo Miller
(68)
“Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”
― Zig Ziglar
(67)
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
― George Santayana
(66)
“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
(65)
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
― Jesse Jackson
(64)
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
― Eva Burrows
(63)
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
― Lee Iacocca
(62)
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
― Ann Brashares
(61)
“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
(60)
“It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
― Friedrich Schiller
(59)
“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(58)
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
― Anita Baker
(57)
“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
(56)
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
(55)
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
― Mother Teresa
(54)
“You can’t have a happy family if you don’t have a happy marriage.”
― Jeremy Sisto
(53)
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
― Elizabeth Berg
(52)
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher
(51)
“A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.”
― Helen Keller
(50)
“Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.”
― J.S. Bryan
(49)
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns
(48)
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
― Mark V. Olsen
(47)
“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”
― Maya Angelou
(46)
“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
(45)
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
― Anthony Liccione
(44)
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
― George Bernard Shaw
(43)
“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
― Cassandra Clare
(42)
“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(41)
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
― Orlando Aloysius Battista
(40)
“Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.”
― Jennifer Ellison
(39)
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(38)
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
― Richard Bach
(37)
“Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.”
― Bar Refaeli
(36)
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
― Marge Kennedy
(35)
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
― Charles Kuralt
(34)
“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
― Christian Morgenstern
(33)
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”
― Margaret Mead
(32)
“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”
― Christopher Love
(31)
“Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.”
― Melanie Shankle
(30)
“The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.”
― Billy Graham
(29)
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
― Anthony Brandt
(28)
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
― Peter Buffett
(27)
“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
― John C. Maxwell
(26)
“Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.”
― Benjamin Todd Jealous
(25)
“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
― Christopher Lasch
(24)
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
― Joyce Brothers
(23)
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.”
― Niki Taylor
(22)
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
― Barbara Bush
(21)
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
(20)
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
― Wanda Hope Carter
(19)
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
― Theodore Hesburgh
(18)
“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”
― Ralph Fiennes
(17)
“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”
― Barbara Bush
(16)
“Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
― Walt Disney
(15)
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
― Mario Puzo
(14)
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
― Desmond Tutu
(13)
“People come and go in our lives, but a beauty of life is that our family is always there.”
― Catherine Pulsifer
(12)
“You have to defend your honor. And your family.”
― Suzanne Vega
(11)
“You inherited a piece of everyone in your family, insult them, insult yourself.”
― Marcelina Hardy
(10)
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
― Pope John XXIII
(9)
“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life.”
― Matthew Quick
(8)
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
― Andre Maurois
(7)
“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.”
― Elizabeth Edwards
(6)
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”
― Winston Churchill
(5)
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
― Charles R. Swindoll
(4)
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
― Albert Einstein
(3)
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
― George A. Moore
(2)
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa
(1)
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
― John Wooden
Bonus Family Quotes
(101)
“Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
(102)
“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.”
― Peace Pilgrim
(103)
“Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.”
― Ronald Reagan
(104)
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
― George Bernard Shaw
(105)
“You don’t have to give birth to someone to have a family. We’re all family – an extended family.”
― Sandra Bullock
(106)
“All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”
― Sigmund Freud
(107)
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
― Gail Lumet Buckley
(108)
“Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.”
― Matt Groening
(109)
“There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.”
― Ryan Dunn
(110)
“Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”
― Grace Kelly
Family life is everything. Taking care of each members of family is the topmost priority of everyone, which no one should ignore. Only then we can move towards a healthy society and then nation.
Hope you liked the beautiful collection of Top 100 Family Quotes and Sayings.
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