40 Family Quotes

* What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ~ Mother Theresa

* 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

* I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. ~  Johnny Depp

* A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ~ Agatha Christie

* I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ~ Ugo Betti

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

* If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. ~ Johnny Depp

* The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S. Truman

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

* We must take care of our families wherever we find them. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

* No family is perfect… we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, family is family… The love will always be there. 

* The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

* Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. ~ Ann Brashares 

* I sustain myself with the love of family. ~ Maya Angelou 

* When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. ~ Jim Butcher

* Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. ~ Sidonie Gruenberg 

* It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it. ~ Peter Buffett 

* Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ~ David Ogden Stiers

* I think people that have a brother or sister don’t realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there’s always somebody there, somebody that’s family. ~ Trey Parker

* 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

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

* Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. ~ Michael J. Fox

* Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all. ~ Maggie Gallagher

* Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~ Gail Lumet Buckley

* If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

* Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

* Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. ~ Bo Bennett

* Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. ~ J.S. Bryan

* I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. ~ Barbara Bush

* Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ~ David Ogden Stiers

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

* Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Princess Diana

* A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ~ George Bernard Shaw

* Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. ~ Bob Ehrlich

* I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

* It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~ Johann Schiller