Family Quotes
The True Meaning Of Family

Any two people sharing a common blood line can call themselves relatives but only when our lives are turned upside down can we truly see if we are a part of a family.

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."
--Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford really hit the nail on the head with this one and it can be considered one of the best family quotes ever written. As long as we have the love of a family behind us, no matter how hard things get we can still get through it.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
-- George Santayana, The Life of Reason

This message is true and clear, the family is one of nature's greatest masterpieces but how many of us really understand and cherish that fact. We all have our grievances with some of our family members but should that be enough to set us apart for life? It should never be.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. -- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Most family quotes try to show you the good aspects of family. This quote shows you the bad side; the side that can ruin your life forever. There are many people out there who feel a lot closer to their friends than they do to the members of their own family; most of the time they're a lot nicer to their friends too.

When water runs thicker than the bond you have with your family, every effort should be made to restore that relationship. The longer you wait to jump start the relationship the harder it is going to be.

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-- Author Unknown

Here is a funny family quote; this one really can put a smile on your face. Think about all the crazy things someone in your family has done to you or some of the things you may have done to them. There is a "nut case" in each family; hopefully your family doesn't think that it is you :)

Let’s read some more interesting quotes about the family and see what else we can learn. You will find links to even more quotes pertaining to different categories of people in your family at the end of this page so stay tuned.

The family. We were 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, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
-- Erma Bombeck on family quotes

The family is a haven in a heartless world.
-- Attributed to Christopher Lasch

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
-- Robert Brault

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
-- Margaret Mead

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 on family quotes

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

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-- Joyce Brothers

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
-- Margaret Laurence

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
-- Ogden Nash on family quotes

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

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

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 on family quotes

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
-- Herbert Prochnov

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

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by 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

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
-- Paul Pearshall

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
-- Nancy Mitford

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

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

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
-- Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

In time of test, family is best.
-- Burmese Proverb

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
-- Marsha Norman

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
-- Lee Iacocca

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Friends are God's apology for relations.
--Hugh Kingsmill

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
-- George Eliot

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"

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

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

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

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
-- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
-- Fred Allen

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
-- Spanish Proverb

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