100 Best Family Quotes That Sum Up Your Unbreakable Bond
Sweet and funny sayings that prove blood really is thicker than water.
Families are complicated, but at the end of the day, they're the people you can depend on, the people who love you, the people who have your back in the bad times and celebrate the good. And even if there are moments where they annoy us a bit too much (we've all been there) or disagreements break out, strong family bonds mean you’ll inevitably come together and move past any minor tiffs — something that, in a way, can make family different from other people in your life.
When it comes time to finding the perfect thing to write in your sister’s birthday card, thoughtful Mother’s and Father’s Day messages, or heartwarming expressions of gratitude, look to these family quotes that capture the loving, sweet and even funny energy everyone can relate to.
Eleanor Brown
Your ancestors are rooting for you.
David Sedaris
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.
Stephen King
Home is where they want you to stay longer.
Francisco S. Alarcón
I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Wayne Huizenga
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
Unknown
Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.
Homer Simpson
Remember, as far as anyone knows, we're a nice, normal family.
Dez Del Rio
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 who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
Oscar Wilde
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Jane Howard
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.
Walt Disney
A man should never neglect his family for business.
George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
‘The Godfather’
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Gene Perret
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.
Robert Frost
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.
Walt Disney
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, and whose respect we need.
'Coco'
We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.
Kahlil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Buddha
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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