Family quotes

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”

“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

“Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.”

“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.”

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”

“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.”

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”

“At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.”

“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”

“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.”

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

“Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.”

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”

“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

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

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.”

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”

“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”

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

“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.”

“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”

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

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”

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

“My home is not a place, it is people.”

“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.”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

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

“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“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.”

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”

“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”

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

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.”

“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.”

“The future was not what it used to be.”

“You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

“There are things worth fighting for.”

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only—and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother's age.”

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.”

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“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.”