Family QuotesFamily quotes in this collection can make you laugh or make you cry. We all have the opportunity to create a ‘family of choice’ if the one we were born into leaves us cold. Life starts and ends with family. Choose yours wisely. If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘good morning’ at total strangers. Maya Angelou The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they’re not advocating family values. They’re advocating their values. Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. Buddha Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr. Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…but most of all, it’s having those loved ones. Johnny Cash To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. Confucius Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. Jacques Delille No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. Benjamin Disraeli Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit. Elizabeth Gilbert I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Elizabeth Gilbert In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. Brad Henry 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 My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life. Lee Iacocca 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 accomplished? Lee Iacocca If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. Helen Keller Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. Martin Luther King, Jr. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted how a job can be terrific and torturous. Anna Quindlen Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. Jim Rohn A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg 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 There is no such thing as Fun for the whole family. Jerry Seinfeld One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare Simply having children does not make mothers. John A. Shedd Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. Elizabeth Stone I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family. Charles R. Swindoll What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Some isn’t listening. Emma Thompson All happy families resemble on another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano Return from Family Quotes and Sayings about Families to Quotes Listed by Subject
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