Family Quotes

"Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family."

- Grace Kelly

"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."

- Jodi Picoult

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

- Virginia Satir

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

- Charles Kuralt

"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

"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."

- Chanakya

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

- Marie Curie

"I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

- LaToya Jackson

"Children are the keys of paradise."

- Eric Hoffer

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever."

- Charlie Sheen

"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives."

- Richard M. Daley

"My family was my guide to my reality."

- Haywood Nelson

"Family, nature and health all go together."

- Olivia Newton John

"I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time."

- Brad Goreski

"Grandchildren are the greatest gifts your heart will ever know."

- Proud Happy Mama

"My father used to play ball with me and my brother in the yard. My mother would say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' My Dad replied, 'We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.'"

- Harmon Killebrew

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

- John F. Kennedy

"Christmastime is cherished family time"

- President Russell M. Nelson

"Federico: It is a good life we lead, brother. Ezio: The best. May it never change. Federico: And may it never change us."

- Federico and Ezio Auditore

"It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for a father who takes his daughter shopping."

- John Sinor

""We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.""

- Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

""After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.""

- Oscar Wilde

""Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.""

- Erma Bombeck

""Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants.""

- Kevin James

""I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.""

- Erma Bombeck

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in this living room on Christmas Day."

""We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all.""