Family Quotes and Quotes on Family

These meaningful quotes about families will touch, inspire and move you. They are fabulous for your cards, scrapbooks, letters or as reminders about the importance of families.

Wanting a heartwarming quote to inspire a family member? Feeling homesick and longing for comforting words? Needing some inspiring words to remind you of family ties?

Whatever your reasons, you've come to the right place for quotes about family. So enjoy!

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 

-- Ogden Nash

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

-- John Bowring 

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
-- Milton R. Saperstein

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. 
-- Author Unknown

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

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
-- Thomas Moore

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.
-- Virginia Satir:

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. 
-- Anais Nin 

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
-- Sidonie Gruenberg

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.
-- Auguste Napier

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
-- Elizabeth II

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. 
-- Erma Bombeck

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferson 

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