100 Best Family Quotes That'll Remind You to Hold Yours Tighter
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Everyone's family is a little bit different, but this heart-warming quote from Leo Tolstoy still rings true: “All happy families are alike.” 🫶 Whether it's the family you were born into or a loving crew that you chose yourself, there's no denying that those in your family can be your best friends and biggest supporters in one.
If you need an example of a standup family, look no further than the Drummonds. They're a loving bunch that will travel miles on end to watch one of Bryce's and Todd's football games and also never miss a birthday shoutout... no matter how many of them there are! Such a special relationship can be embodied by this Richard Bach quote: "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."
There are more happy quotes and plenty of loving sayings just like that on this list of family quotes. Other words are taken from beloved feel-good movies, like Lilo and Stitch. Some are laugh-out-loud funny, like this quote from George Burns: "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." But mostly, the quotes selected are short, simple, and as sincere as the love you feel for your own family—biological, chosen, or otherwise. After all, as Trenton Lee Stewart reminds us, "Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family."
Some more loving and wholesome quotes for you:
Phyllis Diller
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
Rick Riordan
“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.”
Ogden Nash
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
Gail Lumet Buckley
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
Andre Maurois
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
Walt Whitman
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Jet Li
“I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.”
C.S. Lewis
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only — and that is to support the ultimate career.”
Jim Butcher
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.”
Deb Caletti
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
Tia Walker
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
Olaf, ‘Frozen’
“Some people are worth melting for.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
Robert Frost
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”
Jim Gaffigan
“Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.”
Leigh Anne Tuohy
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”
Barbara Bush
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
Walt Disney
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
Desmond Tutu
“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
Kendall Hailey
“The greatest 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.”
Josiah is the Digital Content Producer for the commerce team at Popular Mechanics, Best Products, Runner’s World, and Bicycling Magazine. He also writes for “BIO Buys”—a column on Biography.com—giving readers the lowdown on what products their favorite celebs are using. In another life, Josiah was an editor at ThePioneerWoman.com, where he sharpened his expertise on all things lifestyle, food-news, and entertainment. Outside work related matters, he’s a fan of Studio Ghibli films, unimportant reality TV drama, and melancholy Lorde songs.
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