Family Sayings

Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann
Family Sayings

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


Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com


The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

Great family quotations

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
Good Family Quotations

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Famous Family Quotes

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. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813

Famous Family Quotes
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Nice Family Sayings

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


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
Nice Family Sayings

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
~Author Unknown

Wise family phrases

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers
Wise Family Phrases

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960