Family Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Family
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray 
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Nobody has ever 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
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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