Family Quotes

"Your ancestors are rooting for you."

- Eleanor Brownn

"I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home."

- Bad Bunny

"The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children."

- Adam Goodes

"When I was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work - packing lunches before we woke up - and paying bills after we went to bed. Helping us with homework at the kitchen table - and shuttling us to church for choir practice."

- Kamala Harris

"I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it."

- Pamela Anderson

"My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project."

- Robert Lefkowitz

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

- Godfrey Winn

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

- Robert Frost

"The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to."

- Dodie Smith

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

"A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid."

- Robert Brault

"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family."

- Reba McEntire

"You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges."

- Elizabeth Berg

"Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else."

- Sarah Dessen

"My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family."

- Siri Hustvedt

"A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones."

- Kristin Hannah

"Having You In Po's Life Doesn't Mean Less For Me, It Means More For Po."

- Mr. Ping

"Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

"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

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

- Gail Lumet Buckley

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

- George Santayana

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Desmond Tutu

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

- Mary Karr

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

- Martin Mull

"Your family members are the people who have your back when you need support; they’re the ones who cheer you on as you're celebrating life 's successes; and they’re the ones who laugh with you (and only occasionally at you) during your silliest slip-ups."

"Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows."

"Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours."

"Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

"Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love."