These inspirational quotes about family are positive words about families, siblings, generations and home. There is a page of Inspirational Quotes About Babies and more pages will be added soon for Children, Father, Grandmother, Mother & Parent quotes.
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are listed alphabetically on authors surname
Steven
Aitchison
British author
My
family consists of everyone I love dearly and not just the people who
are related to me.
Those who really know and care about you can hear you even when you haven’t spoken a word.
Mitch Albom 1958
American author
Sticking
with your family is what makes it a family.
Jane Austen 1775-1817
English novelist
There
is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Richard Bach 1936
American author & writer
The
bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect
and joy in each other’s life.
Anita Baker 1958
American singer-songwriter
You
leave home to seek your fortune, and when you get it, you go home and
share it with your family.
Aine Belton
Channeller & spiritual writer
One
hug always equals two.. One for them and one for you.
Bo Bennett 1972
American author & speaker
Spend
some time this weekend on home-improvement.. Improve your attitude
toward your family.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
French Emperor & military leader
Show
me a family of readers… and I will show you the people who move the
world.
Anthony Brandt 1961
American composer, academic & writer
Other
things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Robert Brault
American
author & philosopher
Family
life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect, but who’s
complaining?
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering, than the family and the gathering.
Joyce Brothers 1927-2013
American
psychologist, author & writer
When
you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family
happinesses.
Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
An
older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a
counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins. Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
Sisters share the scent and smells.. The feel of a common childhood.
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
Gail
Lumet Buckley 1937-2024
American
journalist & author
Family
faces are magic mirrors.. Looking at people who belong to us, we see
the past, present and future.
Eva
Burrows 1929-2015
First
woman General of Salvation Army
In
family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that
binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Lorna
Byrne 1953
Irish
author
The bonding with a new baby can help people to release love unconsciously.
Lorna
Byrne 1953
Irish
author
The
connection between brothers and sisters is completely different to
that between friends and it exists throughout our lives, even if we
have little contact.
The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer. It can help bring shared memories to light, and be a reminder of love that was shared in the past.
Mary
Calderone 1904-1998
American physician & author
Our
children are not going to be just ‘our
children’
- they are going to be other people’s
husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Nancy
J. Carmody
I
am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning
and gutters that need fixing because I have a home. I am thankful for
the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are
nearby.
Gilbert
Keith Chesterton 1874-1936
English author & Christian apologist
The
most extraordinary thing in the world is.. An ordinary man and an
ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Julia
Child 1912-2004
American chef, author & TV personality
Dining
with one’s
friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s
primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying
and eternal.
Lydia
Maria Child 1802-1880
American abolitionist, activist &
journalist
Home
- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect
glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an Angel’s
wings.
Sera
Christann
Sometimes
our heart get tangles and our Souls a little off kilter. Friends and
family can set us right and help guide us back to the light.
Winston
Churchill 1874-1965
British Prime Minister
There
is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the
greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are
created, strengthened and maintained.
Confucius
551BC-479BC
Chinese philosopher & politician
The
strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Miley
Cyrus 1992
American singer-songwriter & actress
The
only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family,
because they love you no matter what.
Les Dawson 1931-1993
English comedian
Families
are like fudge… mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
David
DeNotaris
Author & speaker
My
family provided me with the proper information and inspiration for me
to overcome the challenge of blindness.
Sarah
Dessen 1970
American novelist
Family
isn’t something that’s supposed to be static or set. People marry
in, divorce out. They born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning
into something else.
Princess
Diana
1961-1997 British royal family
Family
is the most important thing in the world.
Walt
Disney
1901–1966 American animator & film producer
A
man should never neglect his family for business.
Pamela
Dugdale
Siblings
are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness
and cooperation and kindness and caring.
Will
Durant 1885-1981
American historian, philosopher & writer
The
family is the nucleus of civilization.
Wayne
Dyer 1940-2015
American
author & motivational speaker
Without
exception, begin every day of your life with gratitude. As you look
in the mirror, say, “Thank
you, God, for life, for my body, for my family and loved ones, for
this day, and for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you, thank
you, thank you!”
Albert
Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Rejoice
with your family in the beautiful land of life.
George
Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880
English novelist & poet
What
do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each
other?
T.
S. Eliot 1888-1965
American-English poet, essayist & playwright
There’s
no vocabulary for love within a family, love that’s
lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else
is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech. This love
is silent.
Ralph Fiennes 1962
English actor, film director & producer
One
of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humour.
Michael
J. Fox 1961
Canadian-American actor
Family
is not an important thing.. It is everything.
Susan
Gale
Mothers
are like glue.. Even when you can’t
see them, they’re
still holding the family together.
Richard
Garnett
Love
is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.
Marion
C. Garretty 1902-1972
American poet
A
sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Ellen
Goodman 1941
American journalist, columnist & speaker
Traditions
are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most
powerful ones are those we can’t
even describe, aren’t
even aware of.
What the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children.. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Celebrations wouldn’t be the same without the photos we create, family history through generations, times together that were great.
(quote from poem: Photographs)
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Christmas was never about the presents under a tree, but accumulation of love and memories.. a sanctuary, As generations come and go, Christmas will always be, A time to share the love and joys of being with family.
(quote from poem: The Family At Christmas)
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Family history needs to be shared not just for memories sake, but for all the treasures they hold, from our past our lives we make. Each generation feeds the next not just on physical food and love, but all of their experiences mould and fit, to enfold like a glove.
(quote from poem: Family Stories)
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Kisses and hugs are deposits of affection, keep family’s love-banks topped up.
(quote from poem: Law Of Attraction: A to Z)
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
My roots stem from my family, deeply embedded in Mother Earth
Strongly supporting my presence that fed my early self-worth
(part of poem: The Tree In Me)
Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
The most important things in life are not things, most know
It’s the people in our lives who make our Hearts grow
Our family of Loved ones are the most important of all
They fill our lives with memories, especially those who are small
The little simple moments, a smile, or hug, or glance
Whether in a photo, or our minds, makes our Hearts sing and dance
Some friends are like family, they bloom perfectly in our Heart
Whether grown over the years, or there right from the very start
Love, our greatest possession, it's who we truly are
Giving and receiving unconditionally, in life, we will go far
(part of poem: The Most Important Things In Life)
Alex
Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
In
every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past and a
bridge to our future.
Alex
Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel ninety feet tall.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of people.
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
Thich
Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
If
you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents
and all your generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in
this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation
of each of these people.
When
you plant a lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t
blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may
need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the
lettuce.
Yet, if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Roma
Hanks
Academic/research director for generational studies
It
is my belief that grandparenting is the most important family role of
the new century.
Louise
Hay 1926-2017
American author, speaker & founder of Hay House
publishing
If
you want love and acceptance from your family, then you must give
love and acceptance to them.
Brad
Henry 1963
American lawyer & politician
Families
are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach
great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Elbert
Hubbard 1856-1915
American writer, publisher & philosopher
No
matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can’t
look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what
have you really accomplished?
Margaret Storm
Jameson 1891-1986
English journalist & author
The
gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement,
and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
Thomas
Jefferson 1743-1826
3rd President of USA
The
happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at
home in the bosom of my family.
Pope
John XXIII 1881-1963
Italian head of Catholic Church
The
family is the first essential cell of human society.
Marge
Kennedy
It’s
important for all single parents to remember that not everything that
goes wrong, from your son’s bad attitude towards school to the six
holes in your teenage daughter’s ear, is because you live in a
single-parent home. Every family has problems.
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavour.
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
Yes, single-parent families are different from two-parent families. And urban families are different from rural ones, and families with six kids and a dog are different from one-child, no-pet households. But even if there is only one adult presiding at the dinner table, yours is every bit as much a real family as the Waltons.
Miranda
Kerr 1983
Australian model
While
it’s nice to appreciate the fashion world.. What makes you happy
are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.
Charles
Kuralt 1934-1997
American television, newspaper & radio
journalist
The
love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important
than wealth and privilege.
Jack
Layton 1950-2011
Canadian leader of New Democratic Party
Cherish
every moment with those you love, at every stage of your journey.
Neal
A. Maxwell 1926-2004
American scholar, educator
& Mormon leader
God’s
extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the
seeming obscurity of a home and family.
Margaret
Mead 1901-1978
American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker
Sister
is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but
once the sister are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
George
Moore 1852-1933
Irish novelist, writer & poet
A
man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to
find it.
Movie
- Mrs Doubtfire (1993)
There
are all sorts of different families. Some families have one mommy,
some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live
with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some
children live with foster parents. And some live in separate homes,
in separate neighbourhoods, in different areas of the country - and
they may not see each other for days, or weeks, months.. Even years
at a time. But, if there’s love - those are the ties that bind, and
you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.
Swami
Muktananda 1908-1982
Indian yoga guru
Love
is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live
for the sake of love, and we live seeking love.. It is not surprising
that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations
of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into
love…
This world is nothing but a school of love, our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are. Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside us where love dwells. The love that pulses in the cave of the heart does not depend on anything outside. It does not expect anything. It is completely independent.
Robert
Muller 1923-2010
Belgian
author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Don’t
you think God would smile and feel good, if your spouse, your
children, your parents, your teachers, your colleagues, your
spiritual guides would smile and feel good, if you said to them these
simple words: ‘I
am happy. Thank you for giving me happiness.’
Each mother and father should devote quite some time to the family’s history. An entire new science and art of family and individual history should be developed and taught: ancestry, genealogy, name etymology, oral history, written history, pictorial history, family heirlooms and souvenirs, scrapbooks, photo collections etc.. What deep joys can be derived from family history! It increases the love and role of the family, the fundamental, basic social unit.
Every human being has stories to tell. Please tell them. They are part of the bloodstream of our cosmic journey, the transmission of our experience and wisdom to our descendants.
If we cannot live in peace in our family, how can we expect peace of the human family.
Love must become the subject of serious scientific study. Loved children are healthier, happier, more peaceful children. Loved husbands have seldom heart attacks. Loved plants grow better. Loved animals are not vicious. Loved nations do not wage war. A humanity of loving people will be a peaceful humanity. To promote love means therefore to promote peace. Yes, let us have a love logy, a science of love, to start with a World University of Love.
The family is the first and greatest school of love, peace and happiness on Earth.
Native
American (Chinook Blessing)
We
call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and
our friends, who dreamed the best for our future generations, and
upon whose lives our lives our built, and with thanksgiving, we call
upon them to…
Teach us, and show us the Way.
Clara
Ortega
To
the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sister. We
know each other as we always were. We know each others hearts. We
share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets,
family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
Amos
Oz 1939-2018
Israeli writer, novelist & journalist
I
find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution of
the world.
Letty
Cottin Pogrebin 1939
American author, journalist & social
activist
If
the family were a fruit, it would be an orange; a circle of sections,
held together, but separable, each segment distinct.
Ruth
E. Renkel
Sometimes
the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Christina
Rossetti 1830-1894
English poet
For
there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. To cheer
one on the tedious way, to fetch one, if one goes astray. To life
one, if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Rumi
1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
Always
search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil
imbibes from roses.
George
Santayana 1863-1952
Spanish-American philosopher, novelist & poet
The
family is one of life’s masterpieces.
Virginia
Satir 1916-1988
American psychotherapist & author
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.
Olive
Schreiner 1855-1920
South African author & anti-war campaigner
Our
fathers had their dreams, we have ours, the generation that follows
will have its own.
Chief
Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Suquamish & Duwamish
tribes
Our
bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch of our ancestors as
we walk over this Earth.
Marquise
de Sevigne 1626-1696
French aristocrat
We
cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but
they never break.
George
Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Irish
playwright & critic
A
happy family is but an earlier heaven.
If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton.. You may as well make it dance.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Dodie
Smith 1896-1990
English novelist & playwright
The
family.. That dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite
escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Robert
Southey 1774-1843
English poet
The
history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully
related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and
progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
Nicholas
Sparks 1965
American novelist & screenwriter
My
wife, my family, my friends.. They’ve all taught me things about
love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell.. Loving
someone is about giving, not receiving.
Martha
Stewart 1941
American retail business woman, writer & TV
personality
Over
the years I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the
importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also
taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your
activities and interests.
Rod
Stewart 1945
English singer-songwriter
You
go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the
day it’s
all about family.
Igor
Stravinsky 1882-1971
Russian composer & conductor
It’s
one of nature’s
ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the
generation immediately preceding us.
Meryl
Streep 1949
American actress
My
family really does come first. It always did and always will.
There’s no road map on how to raise a family, it’s always an enormous negotiation.
Charles
R. Swindoll 1934
American evangelical Christian pastor & radio
preacher
A
family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the
anvil of everyday living.
Mother
Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian
Catholic nun
Love
begins by taking care of the closest ones.. The ones at home.
Mother
Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian
Catholic nun
Smile at each other.. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other, it doesn’t matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater Love for each other.
Mother
Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian
Catholic nun
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Desmond
Tutu 1931-2021
South African Anglican bishop & human rights
activist
You
don’t choose your family, they are God’s gift to you, as you are
to them.
Gary
Vaynerchuk 1975
American author, speaker & internet personality
Love
your family. Work super hard. Live your passion.
Mark
Wahlberg 1971
American
actor
For
me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.
Denzel Washington 1954
American actor, producer & director
Acting
is a way of making a living, the family is life.
Dan
Wilcox
I
don’t
care how poor a man is.. If he has family, he’s
rich.
Anthony
Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer &
author
Treat
other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals
as family and they become family. Give
other animals your love and they will love you in return.
Amy
Winehouse 1983-2011
British singer-songwriter
I’m
happiest with my family around me.
Joseph
B. Wirthlin 1917-2008
American business man & Mormon leader
The
place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the
people.
John Wooden 1910-2010
American basketball player & coach
The
most important thing in the world is family and love.
Lois
Wyse 1926-2007
American advertising executive, author & columnist
Grandchildren
are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Secreted in the basements and attics of memory are the hidden treasures of family history that only a grandmother can recall, write and hand down.
Paramahansa
Yogananda 1893-1952
Indian-American
Hindu monk & guru
Kindness
is the Light that dissolves all walls between Souls, families and
nations.
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