50 Quotes About Family and Time with Your Parents
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” –Anthony Brandt
“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. And having both is a blessing.”
“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
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
“The memories we make with our family is everything.” –Candace Cameron Bure
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” –George Santayana
“In time of test, family is best.” –Burmese Proverb
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” –Desmond Tutu
“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” –Lil’ Kim
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” –Pope John XXIII
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” –1 Corinthians 13:4-8
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” –Romans 12:9
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” –Philip Green
“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” –John C. Maxwell
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” –Wanda Hope Carter
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” –Niki Taylor
“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” –Michael Imperioli
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” –George Bernard Shaw
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” –Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” –Josiah
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.”
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” –Winston Churchill
“Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.”
“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. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”
“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
“I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you.”
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” –Albert Einstein
“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.” –Evan Esar
“Where there is family, there is love.”
“Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.”
“Family is the heart of a home.”
“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” –Dodie Smith
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” –Peter Buffett
“The break of a family is the break of society.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Does anybody remember the day when family was family, a woman was a woman, and a man was a man?”
― Delano Johnson
“Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“A woman may try to control the man. But God appointed man as the head of the family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” –Barbara Bush
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” –Richard Bach
“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
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” –Brad Henry
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” –Lee Iacocca
“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” –Guy Lafleur
