Sayings and Quotes

Father quotes, mother quotes, brother quotes, sister quotes, grandfather quotes, grandmother quotes, husband quotes, wife quotes, even cousin quotes, we have done it all. Now I have for you some family quotes. It is said that we chose our friends, but our families are thrust upon us. But then we are family and we need to stick together as they saying goes.

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” ~Johann Schiller

“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

“A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.” ~ Helen Keller

“Nobody has ever before 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

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ~Michael Levine

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns

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

“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.” ~Ashleigh Brilliant

“Families are like fudge… mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ~ Unknown

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

“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”~ Gail Lumet Buckley

“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.” ~ Marsha Norman

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

“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry

“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” ~Joyce Brothers

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~Desmond Tutu

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” ~Gail Lumet Buckley

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ William Shakespeare

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