Family Quotes

We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart. -----Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart

The Family - “That dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ----Dodie Smith

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -----Carl Sandburg

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ----Elizabeth II

The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing. ----Unknown

There are only two families in the world, the haves and the have-nots. ----Miguel De Cervantes

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. ----Rose Macaulay

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. -----Lee Iacocca

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ----John Irving

Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. ----Thomas Moore

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern — will never be enough.”-----Lyndon Baines Johnson

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone. ----NEIL KURSHAN, Raising Your Child to Be a Mensch