FAMILY QUOTATIONS

This page is full of great family quotations, sayings, and verses. ENJOY!

“What can you do to promote world peace?..Go home and love your family.” ~Mother Teresa~

“A man should never neglect his family for business.” ~Walt Disney ~

“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, “I wish I’d spent more time at the office.” ~Unknown~

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” ~George Bernard Shaw~

“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.” ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter~

“No matter what you have 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. ~Elbert Hubbard~

“None but a mule denies his family.” ~ Arabian Proverb~

“Never destroy any aspect of personality, for what you think is the wild branch may be the heart of the tree.” ~Mrs. Henry George~

“If a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his branches.” ~ Doyle M. Davis~

“Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!” ~Unknown~

“Present your family and friends with their eulogies now – they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.” ~Unknown~

“All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ~Count Leo Tolstoy ~

“I trace my family history so I know who to blame.” ~Unknown~

“The family is one of life’s masterpieces.” ~George Santayana~

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

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

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ~ Anthony Brandt~

“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 ~

“The roots of a family tree begin with the love of two hearts” ~Unknown~

“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” ~Charles R. Swindoll~

“A family tree can wither if nobody tends to its roots.” ~Unknown~

“Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.” ~Unknown~

“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~

“Every family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples.” ~Unknown~

“The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.” ~Miley Cyrus~

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

“Family is not an important thing…it is everything.” ~Michael J. Fox~

“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past and a bridge to our future.” ~Alex Hayley~

“It’s an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening nor a thief.” ~Unknown~

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” ~Thomas Jefferson~

“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.” ~Abraham Lincoln~

“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” ~Joyce Brothers~

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” ~George Bernard Shaw~

“We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.” ~Marquise de Sevigne~

“He who careth not whence he came, careth not whiter he goeth.” ~Unknown~

“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” ~ Anita Baker~

“When you search for relatives, you find great friends.” ~ Unknown~

“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.” ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin~

“To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each others hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” ~Clara Ortega~

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

“In time of test, family is best.” ~Burmese Proverb~

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

“Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!” ~Unknown~

“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~Brad Henry~

“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” ~Richard Garnett~

“Spend some time this weekend on home-improvement…Improve your attitude toward your family.” ~Bo Bennett~

“In family life, love is: the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” ~Eva Burrows~

“The family is the nucleus of civilization.” ~ Will Durant~

“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~

“He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.” ~Old English Proverb~

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw~

“Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!” ~Unknown~

“A great man never ignores the simplicity of a child.” ~-Chinese Fortune Cookie~

“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.” ~Sir Stephen Spender~

“Our Family History: “Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” ~ Joel 1:3~

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