Famous Inspirational Quotes

Family Inspirational Quotes

Browse our family inspirational quotes and sayings about families. We hope the words remind you of how special your family is. We hope you find quotes that inspire you and ones that you would share with your family.

"A man should never neglect his family for business."
Walt Disney

"Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper."
Washington Irving

"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
Charles Dickens

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "
George Bernard Shaw

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
G. Shaw

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

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

"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

"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

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
George Bernard Shaw





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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

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

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

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

When we remember a special Christmas,
it is not the presents that made it special,
but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the
togetherness of friends and family
that made that Christmas special. Catherine Pulsifer

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

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.
Richard Bach

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
Margaret Mead

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

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

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. Milton R. Saperstein

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

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

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

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

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

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Eva Burrows

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

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

In time of test, family is best. Burmese Proverb

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. Shirley Abbott

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

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. Sidonie Gruenberg

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

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

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble best to seek out a relative's open arms. Author Unknown

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Pride in family is pride in ordinary people who in our hearts and minds become extraordinary. Author Unknown

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

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Eva Burrows

Family faces are mirrors. Looking at the people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Family Saying

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