Sayings | 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

More William Shakespeare Quotes.

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

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“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”

“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to”

“Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.”

“A best friend is somebody who knows every last thing about you, yet still manages to like you anyway.”

“The medicine of life is to have several true faithful friends. ”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”

“One of the greatest things about being a teenager is the sharing, the closeness and the great times you have with your friends.”

“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”

“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

“Friends are the siblings, God never gave us.”

“Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.”

” Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”