Family Quotes for Letters & Messages

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”

— Mario Puzo

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”

— C.S. Lewis

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

— Barbara Bush

“It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”

— Peter Buffett

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart.”

— Frederick Buechner

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

— Alex Haley

“Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.”

— Vietnamese Proverb

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

— Anthony Brandt

“Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.”

— Walt Disney

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”

— Anthony Liccione

“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.”

— Spanish Proverb

“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”

— Sophocles

“Family means too much, friends are too valuable, and life is too short to put off sharing with people how much they really mean to you.”

— Unknown

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Family is the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

— Brad Henry

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality; your family's love does.”

— Unknown

“Home is the nicest word there is.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are.”

— Unknown

“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”

— Pope John XXIII

“A brother is a friend given by nature.”

— Jean Baptiste Legouve

“Family is not an important thing. It's everything.”

— Michael J. Fox

“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

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”

— Irina Shayk

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

— Anita Baker

“Family and friends are hidden treasures; seek them and enjoy their riches.”

— Wanda Hope Carter

“Family: where life begins and love never ends, no matter the distance between us.”

— Unknown

“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— George A. Moore

“Grandparents are a family's greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy.”

— Unknown

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

— George Santayana

“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”

— Christopher Love

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”

— Marge Kennedy

“Family is like branches on a tree. We all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.”

— Unknown

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained.”

— Winston Churchill

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

“In time of test, family is best.”

— Burmese Proverb

“Family is family.”

— Linda Linney

“Every day of my life has been a gift from my parents.”

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

“Family is where life begins and love never ends.”

— Unknown

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

— Unknown

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.”

— Unknown

“The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture.”

— Michael Novak

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

— George Burns

“A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.”

— Isadora James

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”

— David Ogden Stiers

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”

— Chris Sanders

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

— Lee Iacocca

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.”

— Chinese Proverb

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”

— John Wooden

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching, they are your family.”

— Jim Butcher

“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

— Robert Browning

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

— Albert Einstein

“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

“Family is the heart of a home.”

— Unknown

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”

— Mark V. Olsen

“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”

— Lisa Weed

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Everybody wants to be a part of a family. It's what keeps us grounded.”

— Angie Harmon

“When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.”

— Guy Lafleur

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

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

— Richard Bach

“Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.”

— Unknown

“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

— Barbara Bush

“Families are the compass that guide us.”

— Unknown

“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.”

— Lois Wyse

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”

— Maya Angelou

“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”

— Amalia G.

“Families are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts.”

— Unknown

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

— Gail Lumet Buckley

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

“A family doesn't need to be perfect; it just needs to be united.”

— Unknown

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

— Mitch Albom

“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.”

— Jim DeMint

“The memories we make with our family is everything.”

— Candace Cameron Bure

“A family in harmony will prosper in everything.”

— Chinese Proverb

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”

— Billy Graham

“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

“Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.”

— Unknown

“The love of a family is life's greatest blessing.”

— Unknown

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

— Robin Hobb

“My family is my strength and my weakness.”

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“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 isn't intended.”

— Robert Frost

“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.”

— Buddha

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”

— Wayne Huizenga

“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.”

— Menachem Begin

“Where there is family, there is love.”

— Unknown

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Mother Teresa

“Our family is a circle of strength and love. With every birth and every union, the circle grows.”

— Unknown

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

— Desmond Tutu

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Family: a group experience of love and support.”

— Marianne Williamson