Fantastic Family Quotes

To understand better the role of the family,and what family means,read these meaningful family quotes!

Here are the first 15 great family quotes:

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-Leo Tolstoy

"I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters. "

-Lance Armstrong

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. "

-Jim Rohn

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

-Eva Burrows

"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

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people, your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

-Barbara Bush

"Family is the most important thing in the world"

-Princess Diana Frances Spencer

"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

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

-Carl Sandburg

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

-John Bowring

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

-Joyce Brothers

"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree."

-Helen Keller

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."

-Chinese Proverb

"Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family?"

-Marmontel Gretry

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

-Denzel Washington

And another 10 remarkable family quotes:

"I never forget my wife’s birthday. It’s usually the day after she reminds me about it."

-Anonymous

"In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair."

-Auguste Napier

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

-George Santayana

"The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."

-Shakespeare

"Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details,life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."

-Thomas Moore

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

-William Shakespeare

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body."

-Elizabeth Stone

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

-Ed Howe

"In time of test, family is best."

-Burmese Proverb

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

-Thomas Jefferson

And the last 6 family quotes:

"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

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards."

-Benjamin Franklin

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

-Alex Haley

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."

-Confucius

"If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. "

-Michael Chrichton

"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."

-Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

I hope you liked these family quotes!

Return from Family Quotes to Homepage

| MARRIAGE QUOTES |

| BIRTHDAY QUOTES |

More Than A Quotes Site

I have created this site to Remind you how Incredible Life Can Be, to Encourage you to achieve your goals and dreams,to Motivate and Inspire you when you feel depressed,and to keep you Focused on the important things in your life.