85 Best Family Quotes That'll Remind You of What's Really Important
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
It's true that no family looks the same, but as Leo Tolstoy would say: “All happy families are alike.” Families can be some of your best friends and biggest fans, and that alone brings on a feeling so unique, it can hardly be explained! Yet, this list of family quotes somehow manages to pull it off.
If you need an example of a standup family, look no further than the Drummonds. They're a supportive bunch that will travel miles on end to watch one of Bryce's and Todd's football games and also never miss a birthday shoutout... no matter how many of them there are! Such a special relationship can be embodied by this Richard Bach quote: "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."
There are more happy quotes and plenty of loving sayings just like that on this list. Other words are taken from beloved feel-good movies, like Lilo and Stitch. Some are laugh-out-loud funny, like this quote from George Burns: "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." But mostly, the quotes selected are short, simple, and as sincere as the love you feel for your own family—biological, chosen, or otherwise. After all, as Trenton Lee Stewart reminds us, "Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family."
Leigh Anne Tuohy
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”
Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
Walt Disney
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
Desmond Tutu
“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
Kendall Hailey
“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.”
Robin Hobb
“Home is people. Not a place.”
Pierce Brown
“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
Khalil Gibran
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
Joyce Brothers
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
Bob Hope
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance — waiting for the bathroom.”
George A. Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”
Kristin Hannah
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken.”
Martin Mull
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
Evan Esar
“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”
Robert Brault
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
Leo Tolstoy
“All happy families are alike.”
Courtland Milloy
“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.”
Lilly Singh
“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.”
Charles Kuralt
“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.”
Menacheim Begin
“It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.”
Josiah Soto is the assistant editor of news and social for The Pioneer Woman. He helps manage the website’s social channels, in addition to writing high-performing news and entertainment content daily.
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