Family Quotes

Deb Caletti

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

Ann Brashares

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

Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

M.D. Birmingham

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

Bobbi Kay

I write to get ideas out of my head

Elizabeth Haydon

I had always thought of home not as a house, or even a place, but a feeling of safety and acceptance, a warm light when the rest of the world was a dark, forbidding place.
Whenever my family was around, wherever we were, I felt like I was home.

Sara Sheridan

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with
We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Kristin Hannah

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Melina Marchetta

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Katie McGarry

I love you enough to never make you choose.

Stieg Larsson

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

George Burns

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

Jay McInerney

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Erma Bombeck

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.

Derek Landy

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

David Rovics

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.

Dakota Dawn

Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.

Norlito Baclayen

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Zack Love

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

Benjamin J. Carey

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Mollie Marti

With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.

Bernard Branson

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.. Bernard Branson
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Paul Pearsall

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Rabih Alameddine

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Michael Palin

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

Rebecca McNutt

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Rodney Barnes

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Crystal Woods

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and
At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

A.P. Jensen

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

Anthony Liccione

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

Elizabeth George

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do..
Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

Elizabeth George

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

Ogwo David Emenike

80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.

M.G. Wells

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

Nathalie M. Leblanc

You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!

Brook Tesla

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Kelly Risser

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

Ram Mohan

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

Isabella Poretsis

Just because someone says it is so doesn't mean it is.

Virchand Gandhi

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Mother Teresa

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

Louis Zamperini

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Rabih Alameddine

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Aoboshi Kimama

I'm going to be a person who writes stories.

I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.

I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Delano Johnson

I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things.

Esther Earl

Just be happy. And if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.

Elizabeth George

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

James A. Murphy

Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!

Diogo Mainardi

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel.

That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel.

Tito's birth changed all that.

Lauren Gilley

You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.

Julene Bair

And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives that gave us life and others that gave our lives meaning have ended.

Gary Shteyngart

The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.

Brandi L. Bates

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Jim George

Your impact on the lives of others-your family, the people at your church, your workmates-is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

E.A. Bucchianeri

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit.

Ruth McLeod-Kearns

The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

Arlene Schindler

I come from a long line of miserable people.

Philip Green

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

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.

Julia Marriott

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.

Doug Solter

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

Melanie Finn

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off.

E.B. White

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

Mitch Albom

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Veronica Roth

I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response.
He frowns at me. "Say it again."
"Tobias," I say, "I love you.

Jodi Picoult

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.

Christopher Paolini

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Leigh Hunt

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Tori Spelling

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

Alice Hoffman

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Thornton Wilder

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Haniel Long

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.

Veronica Roth

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Lindsey Kelk

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

J.K. Rowling

Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?"
"Sorry, George, dear."
"Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.

Sam Levenson

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

George Carlin

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

Stephen King

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Mary Karr

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

Stephen Colbert

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Gail Carriger

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Mitch Albom

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Angela Schwindt

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Louis C.K.

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

Tori Spelling

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Maya Angelou

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

Cheryl Lacey Donovan

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

Maya Angelou

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Alice Sebold

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Mitch Albom

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Mitch Albom

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

Toni Sorenson

Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free.

Maverick Hill

It's not about saying your sorry, or expecting me to forgive you. It's about showing love and respect to the people in your life each day you get to breathe. It's about taking responsibility for your decisions, honoring your commitments, and not fucking up in the first place.

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