50 Inspiring Family Quotes That Celebrate Love and Togetherness

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Donna Hedges

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

- Candace Cameron Bure

"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Richard Bach

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- Jim Butcher

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- John Wooden

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Princess Diana

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Charles Kuralt

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"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

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

- Jet Li

"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

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

- Irina Shayk

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

- Anthony Brandt

"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

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

- Michael Imperioli

"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

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

- Alex Haley

"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

"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

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"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

"I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life."

- Barbara Bush

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

- Louis Zamperini

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

- Michael Imperioli

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

- Charlie Sheen

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

- Eva Burrows

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

- Alex Haley

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"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

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Peter Buffett

"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

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

- Brad Henry

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

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Guy Lafleur

"Children do not need us to shape them. They need us to respond to who they are."

- Naomi Aldort

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."

- Lisa T. Shepherd

"Sometimes, family is a group of people who make you feel less alone and really loved."

- Carlos Wallace

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

- Eva Burrows

"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 who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

- Dez Del Rio

"Without family, you've got nothing."

- Dom Toretto

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence."

- Bell Hooks

"Family is where life begins and love never ends."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ring Lardner

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

- George Santayana

"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

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

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"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

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

- Philip Green

"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

"That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable."

- Deb Caletti

"My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

- Rick Riordan

"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

"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

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

"I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family."

- José Carreras

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

- Pope Francis

"if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

- Rick Riordan

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

- Menachem Begin

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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

- Charles Kuralt

"You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be."

- Lilly Singh

"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends."

- Courtland Milloy

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

- Walt Disney

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

- George A. Moore

"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

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

- Guy Lafleur

"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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

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

- Philip Green

"Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy."

- Jenna Morasca

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

- Dodie Smith

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Vartan Gregorian

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

- Bo Bennett

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

- Rick Riordan

"Children are the keys of paradise."

- Eric Hoffer

"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

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'"

- Harmon Killebrew

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

- George Burns

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

- Philip Green

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

- Marge Kennedy

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

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

- Harry Morgan

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"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

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."

- Jay McInerney

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

- Ann Brashares

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

- Les Dawson

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

- Robert Brault

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

- Douglas Coupland

"I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom."

- Bob Hope

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says."

- Marcelina Hardy

"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

"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

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Mary Karr

"I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow."

- Francisco X. Alarcón

"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

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

- Martin Mull

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Buddy Hackett

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"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

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t know where the heck she is."

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

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

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

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

"Family is the heart of a home."

"Where there is family, there is love."

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

"In time of test, family is best."

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

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

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

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

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

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

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

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

- Anonymous

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