90 Best Family Quotes That Say Family is Forever

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Frederick Buechner

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. 

Mary Karr

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more secure.

Jim Butcher

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

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. 

Stephanie Marston

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

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

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. 

George Eliot

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Brad Henry

In time of test, family is best. 

Burmese Proverb

Family is the most important thing in the world. 

Princess Diana

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. 

Angela Schwindt

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. 

Anthony Brandt

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.

Jim Butcher

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Oscar Wilde

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. 

Jonathan Safran Foer

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Ann Brashares

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Walt Whitman

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Anthony Liccione

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

I sustain myself with the love of family. 

Maya Angelou

Home is people. Not a place. 

Robin Hobb

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 

George Burns

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. 

Mitch Albom

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. 

J.S. Bryan

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. 

George Moore

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. 

Ogden Stiers

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. 

George Santayana

My family is my strength and my weakness. 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw