Family Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Family

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are my Family
- Karen Drucker

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa

Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu

Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead

Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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