Family Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Attributed to Christopher Lasch
A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?
Rose Macaulay
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
John Bowring
The family that prays together stays together.
Proverb
Good families are generally worse than any others.
Anthony Hope
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
Proverb
Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Anonymous
I don’t care how poor a man is, if he has family, he’s rich.
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
A poor relation – is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
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
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Brad Henry
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
Lee Iacocca
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb
Blood is thicker than water.
Proverb
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
In time of test, family is best.
Burmese Proverb
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
Ring Lardner
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
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