Family Quotes

"I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad."

- Wayne Dyer

"Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk."

- Susan Scarf Merrell

"Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don’t like them. Can’t sell kids."

- Lin Pardey

"Home is people. Not a place."

- Robin Hobb

"It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family."

- Menachem Begin

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Why don’t kids understand their nap is not for them, but for us?"

- Alyson Hannigan

"Our pets are our family."

- Ana Monnar

"The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."

- Jane Austen

"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness."

- Hesiod

"Baby brothers are small. Baby brothers are cute. But they can be a pain, and that is the truth."

- Shelia Sweeny Higgingson

"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."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"We can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."

- Lee Hyeonseo

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you."

- Louis Zamperini

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family."

- Jim Butcher

"Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

- Mark Twain

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

- Kahlil Gibran

"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."

- Winston Churchill

"Families are certainly complicated — anyone can tell you that — but at the end of the day, they're the people you can depend on, the people who love you, the people who have your back and offer support in the bad times and celebration in the good."

- Ippei Naoi

"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

"Family. A little bit of crazy. A little bit of loud. A whole lot of love."

"Like branches of a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain the same."

"Every family has a story… Welcome to ours."

"It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who is around it."

"Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong."

"The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table."

"Excuse the mess… The kids are making memories."

"Pocket full of pebbles, bear hugs and worn-out knees. Cook crumbs and kisses, my boy is made of these."

"Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one."

- Unknown