35 Family Quotes That Hit Close to Home (2024)

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Family quotes

1. “The family is the heart’s country.” —Giuseppe Mazzini

2. “Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” —Unknown

3.“One of life’s few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.” —Mignon McLaughlin

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

5. “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” —Robert Frost

6. “In truth, a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.” —Marge Kennedy

7. “The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.” —Dodie Smith

8. “Family: where life begins and love never ends.” —Unknown

9. “Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” —André Maurois

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

11. “In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.” —Alex Haley

12. “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” —Elizabeth Berg

13. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.” —Winston Churchill

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14. “In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.” —Anna Quindlen

15. “The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem.” —Walt Disney

16. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” —George Moore

17. “Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.” —Menachem Begin

18. “The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.” —Nancy Mitford

19. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” —George Santayana

20. “Friends are ‘annuals’ that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a ‘perennial’ that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect.” —Erma Bombeck

21. “When we have each other, we have everything.” —Unknown

22. “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.” —Robert Frost

23. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” —George Burns

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24. “‘Ohana’ means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” —Lilo & Stitch

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

26. “Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.” —Barack Obama

27. “A family is a web so delicately woven that it takes almost nothing to set the whole thing shuddering or even to tear it to pieces. Yet the thread it’s woven of is as strong as anything on Earth.” —Frederick Buechner

28. “Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.” —Trenton Lee Stewart

29. “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” —Deb Caletti

30. “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

31. “The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.” —Unknown

32. “When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy’s tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.” —Charles Dickens

33. “Family. A snug kind of a word.” —Fannie Hurst

34. “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

35. “The task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.” —Margaret Mead

Not all family members are related by blood. For those, you’ll want to read on for our favorite funny friendship quotes.