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When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Sep 10, 2025
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
The family. We are 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. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
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.
Families are the compass that guide us.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
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.
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
The love of a family is life's greatest blessing
My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.
A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.