Family Quotes

"Family is not solely about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most."

- Andy Cohen

"The best part about being in a chosen family is that they're the family you get to choose."

- Jessie Pavelka

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to 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

"Your family is the group you're born into, but your chosen family are the people you pick to be with you along the way."

- Jessica Lang

"The family you choose can sometimes be closer than the one you're born into."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The beauty of chosen family is that it transcends societal norms and celebrates the uniqueness of each individual relationship."

- Andy Cohen

"The family is a haven in a heartless world."

- Christopher Lasch

"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm."

- Isaac Rosenfeld

"Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

- Rick Riordan

"This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good."

- Stitch

"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

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

- George A. Moore

"Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small."

- Jennifer Donnelly

"This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."

- Arundhati Roy

"Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say."

- Rick Riordan

"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

- Mitch Albom

"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life."

- Matthew Quick

"Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us."

- Christopher Paolini

"We must take care of our families wherever we find them."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."

- Mark Twain

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

"My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run."

- Allyson Felix

"My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile."

- Victoria Beckham

"When a man retires, his wife gets twice as much husband for half as much money."

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

"As long as I have my siblings, I have a family."

"Family can extend far beyond one household."

"Be nice to your kids. They’ll choose your nursing home."

- Unknown

"A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job."

- Unknown