“Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.” ― Joan Benoit
“Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.” ― Ivana Trump
“I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it’s nice that I can live this way.” ― Ivana Trump
“I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.” ― Richard Branson
“Under any system of society … the family holds the future in its bosom.” ― Charles Franklin Thwing
“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.” ― Barry Gibb
“Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.” ― Chris Hogan
“There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” ― Willie Stargell
“A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.” ― Tom DeLay
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters, and of family disagreements.” ― Queen Elizabeth II
“I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that’s all that matters.” ― Lance Armstrong
“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.” ― Robert Cormier
“I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people’s thoughts and work, things they love.” ― DeWitt Bodeen
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.” ― Robert Breault
“Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.” ― Moby
“I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire
“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.” -David A. Bednar
“People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.” -Douglas Coupland
“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.” -Jodi Picoult
“Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” -Bob Ehrlich
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” -Charles R. Swindoll
“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” ― Gail Tsukiyama
“Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.” ― Robert Frost
“No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.” ― Claire LaZebnik
“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.” ― Neil Gaiman
“One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” — Robert Byrd
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” — Ring Lardner
“Family is a candle burning at both ends – stay in the middle for as long as you can.” – Bert McCoy
“Families weren’t like a box of standardized-test-taking number two pencils. Families were like a box of assorted-color Sharpie markers: different, kinda stinky (but not in a bad way), and permanent whether you liked it or not.” – Roshani Chokshi
“Keep them close if they love you for living in your truth. But weigh their intentions if they love you for living in their truth.” – Mitta Xinindlu
“Mothers are our world. Sisters are our sky. Daughters are our stars. Women are our universe.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.” – Dave Willis
“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”― Stephen R. Covey
“The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”― C.S. Lewis
“Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?”― Sakura Tsukuba
“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.”― Louis Zamperini
“Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.”― Amit Ray
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”― Alex Haley
“It’s frightening seeing in ourselves the same ingredients as dysfunctional members of our families. Fortunately, as it is with baking, the proportions, mix, and temperature of the exact same ingredients can yield anything from burnt cookies to elegant soufflés.”– Alan Robert Neal
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” – Anita Baker
“It doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you have family, you’re rich. All the money in the world could never compare to the love of a family.”
“Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.” – Jenna Morasca
“You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.” – Esha Gupta
“I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.” – Marlon Wayans
“Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.” ― Germany Kent
“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
Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.
“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
“Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love.” – Shahrukh Khan
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” – Paul Ryan
“Family: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.”
“Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.” – Joseph Losery
“It’s very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.” – Jada Pinkett Smith
“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
“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
“The most important parts of building a family are “God’s Love” and “Meaningful Friendships.” ― Phil Mitchell
“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.”
“Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found.” – Dorothea S. Koppliln
“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
“Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I’d be now.” – Patricia Velasquez
“Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.” – Benjamin Todd
“In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.” – Mahesh Babu
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa
“Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.” – Wes Borland
“I love my family because they are always there for me even in my most fragile moments.” ― Gift Gugu Mona
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” —George Bernard Shaw
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” ― Philip Green
I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves. – Kate Middleton
When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy. – Abdul Kalam
It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal. – Dalai Lama
There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold. – Ryan Dunn
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” – Thomas Jefferson
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – George Bernard Shaw
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together – and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families – that’s what we hope to do. – Walt Disney
We’re a family, we stick together. – Toy Story
You cannot deny the truth that is your family. – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Making a memory! Years from now, when I’m all grown up, I’ll always remember my grandfather and how he always smelled of… peppermint and pipe tobacco. – The Parent Trap
No matter where I go, you will always be my mother. – Tarzan
Sometimes what’s left behind can grow better than the generation before. – The Lion King
You and Mom tell me all kinds of things I think are stupid until I hear them from somebody else. – The Proud Family
We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family. – Coco
Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours. – Frozen
I became a sister to three new brothers. The princes. Hamish, Hubert, and Harris. Wee devils, more like. They get away with murder. I can never get away with anything. – Brave
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. – Lilo & Stitch
The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter. – Mulan
I can remember some things because I have a family because everyone has a family. – Finding Dory
My step dad may not have given me life, but he sure has made my life better. – Gerado Campbell
One of the most powerful things you can do to make your blended family victorious is to learn how to release unrealistic expectations. – Kellye Laughery
A patchwork family needs extra effort and care, and even then there is no guarantee of happily ever after. – Ariel Gore
I never wanted kids. Then I became a stepmom, and there was no place I’d rather be than with them. – Gabrielle Union
It is a challenge unlike any other to make the effort to love our step-kids like they are your own and to maybe not receive that love back. – Rose Quinn
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 don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them. – Leigh Anne Tuohy
A step-sibling is one giant step in growing in life, together. – Sally Painter
I’m grateful that being a stepmom has taught me that there is no shame in admitting you don’t have it together all the time. – Jamie Scrimgeour
Family is family. Whether it’s the one you start out with, the one you end up with, or the family that you gain along the way. – Modern Family
Blended families are a beautiful mix of diverse people who each serve an important role in our lives. At times, it can be challenging to appreciate everyone’s unique beauty. – Deana Kellar La Rosa
Co-parenting. It’s not a competition between two homes. It’s a collaboration of parents doing what is best for the kids. – Heather Hetchler
The blended family isn’t just an ordinary family times two. It’s a special kind of family with special needs. – Maxine Marsolin
Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or ex-wife, your ex’s new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate’s ex and any new mate that your new mate’s ex has acquired. – Delia Ephron
I have a really good family. I’m lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life. – Kenny Wormald
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. – George Moore
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future. – Jackie Kennedy
My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. Because they have given me everything. – Ronaldhino
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. – Adrian Grenier
We start with our family, we may stray as life goes on but we all end up with our family – appreciate them! – Catherine Pulsifer
I can’t complain about my life, I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country. – Mary Decker
While at work, keep a picture of your family on your desk. This reminds you that there is another world of yours at home. – M.K. Soni
I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy, and I am loved. – Reba McEntire
You go through life wondering what it is all about, but at the end of the day it’s all about family. – Rod Stewart
I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I always know where I belong. – Jose Carreras
I am thankful for my family. My friends, I feel the same. – Julie Huebert
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. – Chris Jammi
Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problem is someone else. – Darlene Ouimet
A fake family is worse than a regular fake relationship where blood relations aren’t involved. – Samuel Zulu
Fake families are like shadows. They follow you in the sun but leave you in the dark.
Everything is fake nowadays – fake relationships, fake feelings, fake friends, even fake relatives.
When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fake anymore. – Nima Davani
You may feel guilty for leaving your family behind. But you’ll never regret moving yourself forward.
Be strong. Say ‘no.’ And cut out those toxic fake family members.
Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.
Don’t worry about the family that ignores and acts like you don’t matter. Love the ones who are always there for you no matter what.
Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family.
Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing. And not drilling holes when you’re not looking. Know your circle.
Stand by those who stand by you. – Mac Miller
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. – Lao Tzu
Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. – Bill Owens
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear, and they are there for me in the good times and bad times. – Kelly Clarkson
In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win. – Lindsay Fox
Ninety percent of those who are successful today were the people who had little or nothing, but were pushed and encouraged by their family. – Michael Bassey Johnson
From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge. – Jarod Kintz
Having a child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee. – David Frost
Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off. – Ralph Bus
Stay away from family when you are working on a startup. – Ritesh Agarwal
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. – Ralph Fiennes
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. – Friedrich Nietzsche
That’s what family is. People who hate you, but can’t kill you. Because they’re the first ones questioned. – 2 Broke Girls
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. – Francis Bacon
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors. – Jeff Foxworthy
I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom. – Bob Hope
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. – Chelsea Handler
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. – Phyllis Diller
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. – Wayne Huizenga
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns
The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. – Stefan Molyneux
Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters. – John Mark Green
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them – but still move on without them. – Mandy Hale
The longer we ignore red flags, pretend they don’t exist, the more we disconnect from ourselves. – Sherrie Campbell
Just because they are your family doesn’t mean that they are your friends. – Beverly Miller
A toxic family is even worse than a toxic relationship. – Rohan Chouhan
In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself. – Deepak Chopra
It’s perplexing how family members claim their undying love for us. They can say whatever they choose, but their actions and behaviors don’t match their words. – Dana Arcuri
Love them from a distance. Pray for them, wish them well, but don’t allow them to abuse you. – Kimber Waul
You can miss a person every day and still be glad that they are no longer in your life. – Tara Westover
A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love. – Sherrie Campbell
Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself. – Hussein Nishah
If the family you chose before your birth no longer supports your path towards fulfilling your true destiny, it is never too late to find a new tribe. – Anthon St. Maarten
Blood doesn’t make you family. Some of the most demonic and demeaning people in your life share your DNA. – Temi Ade
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. – Stephen King
We are a noisy and blessed little family. – Nancy E. Turner
He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about. – Jamie Ford
Writers will happen in the best of families. – Rita Mae Brown
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. – Sam Levenson
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown
My first priority is time with my family. – Tom Selleck
I don’t think anyone has a normal family. – Edward Furlong
Family, nature, and health all go together. – Olivia Neton-John
I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is. – Jaie Lee Curtis
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fo
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. – Jojo Moyes
No matter what you’ve 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? – Lee Iacocca
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. – Courtney Thorne-Smith
I feel like I finally understand how family love is. Tangled, wounded, and wonderful. Imperfect. A forever love. – Hannah Tunnicliffe
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. – Haniel Long
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one’s friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. – Jasmine Guy
If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally – you truly have everything! – Lindsey Rietzsch
Love is the glue that holds a family together and without which all things fall apart. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
A true family’s love nourishes, it’s the rock that is meant to support and strengthen you after being weakened by adversities of life. – Wayne Chirisa
“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
“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” –Dodie Smith
“Family is the heart of a home.”
“Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.”
“Where there is family, there is love.”
“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
“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” –Coco
“Some people are worth melting for.” –Olaf
“This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” –Stitch
“Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” –Stitch
“I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you.”
“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
“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.”
“Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.”
“Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” –George Bernard Shaw
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.”
“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.”
“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
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” –Desmond Tutu
“In time of test, family is best.” –Burmese Proverb
“Family is family.” –Linda Linney
“The memories we make with our family is everything.” –Candace Cameron Bure
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”
“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” –George Burns
“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
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” ― Kristin Hannah
“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.” ― Sarah Dessen
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca
"You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges." — Elizabeth Berg
"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family." — Reba McEntire
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." — George A. Moore
"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family." — Paul Pearsall
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it." — Mary Karr
“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown
“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
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – Robert Brault
"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Leo Tolstoy
“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” – Courtland Milloy
“Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf
“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” — Lilly Singh
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“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
“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt
“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”― Rick Riordan
“Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – Stitch
“That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.” ― Cassandra Clare
"It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family." — Menacheim Begin
“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 life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” – Michael Imperioli
"The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you." — Louis Zamperini
I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” — Barbara Bush
"My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct." — Jodi Picoult
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” – Niki Taylor
“Friends are the family you choose.”― Jess C. Scott
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” – Wanda Hope Carter
