50 Inspirational Small Family Quotes That Celebrate Love and Togetherness

"The love of a family is a life's greatest blessing."

- Eva Burrows

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching 3 they are your family."

- Jim Butcher

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

- Desmond Tutu

"In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future."

- Alex Haley

"The most important thing in the world is family and love."

- John Wooden

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Amalia Gavea

"Family is the most important thing in the world."

- Princess Diana

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."

- Lee Lacocca

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life."

- Lisa Weed Phifer

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other6s life."

- Richard Bach

"You don6t choose your family. They are God6s gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

"Family is not an important thing. It6s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

- Frederick Buechner

"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"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

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

- Lee Iacocca

"When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends."

- Barbara Bush

"Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family."

- Josiah

"The memories we make with our family is everything."

- Candace Cameron Bure

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

- George Santayana

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

- Desmond Tutu

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family."

- Coco

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The foundation of family —that's where it all begins for me."

- Faith Hill

"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss…that's the trade-off. But I'll take it all."

- Brad Pitt

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

- Barbara Bush

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."

- Friedrich Nietzche

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."

- Anthony Brandt

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

- John C. Maxwell

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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 man should never neglect his family for business."

- Walt Disney

"The family is one of nature6s masterpieces."

- George Santayana

"Life is beautiful. It6s about giving. It6s about family."

- Walt Disney

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

- George Bernard Shaw

"It didn6t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

- Anthony Liccione

"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

- Andre Maurois

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

- Gail Lumet Buckley

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

- Leo Tolstoy

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues3 are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

"Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

- Exodus 20:12, King James Bible

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing."

- Donna Hedges

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society."

- Pope Francis

"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- Jim Butcher

"In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, a bridge to our future."

- Alex Haley

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

- Ring Lardner

"My family's the most important thing in my life."

- Joe Namath

"At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable."

- Mark V. Olsen

"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

- Margaret Mead

"In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything."

- Michaela DePrince

"I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself."

- Brad Pitt

"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

"Time together as a family is a gift."

- Joanna Gaines

"It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands."

- Christina Rossetti

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

- Richard Bach

"My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct."

- Jodi Picoult

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow."

- Bill Owens

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

- George Santayana

"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

- Barbara Bush

"Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- Stitch from "Lilo & Stitch"

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

- Stitch

"We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family."

- 'Coco'

"Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family."

- Walt Disney

"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."

- Albert Einstein

"It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."

- Richard Bach

"Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

- Brad Henry

"When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you."

- Guy Lafleur

"If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."

- Robin Hobb

"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other."

- Mario Puzo

"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss 3 That6s the trade-off. But I6ll take it all."

- Brad Pitt

"To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors."

- Tia Walker

"Families don6t have to match. You don6t have to look like someone else to love them."

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

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

- George A. Moore

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."

- Haniel Long

"That6s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you6re not so lovable."

- Deb Caletti

"My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what6s important to me."

- Michael Imperioli

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

- Charles Kuralt

"The world, we6d discovered, doesn6t love you like your family loves you."

- Louis Zamperini

"We may have our differences, but nothing6s more important than family."

- Miguel from "Coco"

"My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me."

- Michael Imperioli

"It6s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

- Philip Green

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing."

- Irina Shayk

"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

"I am blessed to have so many great things in my life 3 family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily."

- Lil' Kim

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we6re related for better or for worse ... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

- Rick Riordan

"My dear young cousin, if there6s one thing I6ve learned over the eons, it6s that you can6t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

- Rick Riordan

"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."

- Vartan Gregorian

"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other."

- Jet Li

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it."

- Ann Brashares

"Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches."

- Wanda Hope Carter

"Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion."

- Niki Taylor

"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 isn6t intended."

- Robert Lee Frost

"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."

- Bo Bennett

"It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

- Philip Green

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

- Mark Twain

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

- Stephen King

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

- George Burns

"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."

- Evan Esar

"The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you."

- Kendall Hailey

"Families are like fudge 3 mostly sweet with a few nuts."

- Les Dawson

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

- Dodie Smith

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."

- Amos Oz

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily."

- Lil’ Kim

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one6s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

- Philip Green

"Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts."

- Les Dawson

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only 3 and that is to support the ultimate career."

- C.S. Lewis

"Your ancestors are rooting for you."

- Eleanor Brownn

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

- Mary Karr

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you6re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone6s feelings"

- David Sedaris

"Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family."

- Chelsea Handler

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it6s a mere formality. It doesn6t matter if you answer yes or no. You6re going to get it anyway."

- Erma Bombeck

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can6t."

- Anonymous

"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."

- Marge Kennedy

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She6s 97 now, and we don6t know where the heck she is."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."

- George Carlin

"Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts."

- Wayne Huizenga

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn6t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"As a child my family6s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett

"A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don6t have a top for it."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t."

- Anonymous

"Being part of a family means smiling for photos."

- Harry Morgan

"I grew up with six brothers. That6s how I learned to dance 3 waiting for the bathroom."

- Bob Hope

"Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts."

- Les Dawson

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

- Ogden Nash

"Having one kid makes you a parent. Having two kids makes you a referee."

- David Frost

"In time of test, family is best."

"The family is the first essential cell of human society."

"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."

"Sticking with your family is what makes it a family."

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family."

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

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

"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."

"Family is the heart of a home."

"I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you."

"Treat your family like friends and your friends like family."

"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."

"Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. And having both is a blessing."

"Alone, you are strong, but together, you6ll be stronger than ever."

"Together, we make a beautiful family."

"Life feels complete when you6re together with your family."

"Children can never have too many positive adult role models in their lives."

"Being happy in your family is more important than being perfect."