You didn’t ask for them, and you can’t trade them, but they’re the only ones who truly understand you.
They’re the ones who care about you, and you should care about them as well — whether they’re your biological family or not.
Family is the most essential thing in the world, even if it’s easy to forget at times.
This could include your mother, father, siblings, spouse, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws, among others. “Family” may simply refer to individuals with whom we share unconditional love.
Families, by definition, are complex. These long-term partnerships can come with a lot of baggage and hurt. Given their importance in our lives, it’s no surprise that the complexities of familial love have captivated people throughout history.
So, no matter how you feel about them, these family quotes about love and appreciation will perhaps help you love and appreciate them regardless of how close you are.
110+ Family Quotes to Understand Its Importance
Family is more than blood.___Cassandra Clare
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.― Leo Tolstoy
Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.__Lilo & Stitch
Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.___Unknown
Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.– George Santayana
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.― J.R.R. Tolkien
No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.___William Butler Yeats
Family is the most important thing in the world.___Princess Diana
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.___Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life. – J.K. Rowling
Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.___Michael J. Fox
Happiness [is] only real when shared― Jon Krakauer
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.___David Ogden Stiers
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.___Mother Teresa
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.___Mark V. Olsen
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.― Jay McInerney
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.___Jim Butcher
Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.___Wanda Hope Carter
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.― J.K. Rowling
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.___George Bernard Shaw
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.___Anthony Brandt
A man should never neglect his family for business.___Walt Disney
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ― C.S. Lewis
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they got together. – Sam Levenson
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.___George Moore
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.__Jim Butcher
The most important thing in the world is family and love.___John Wooden
Family: where life begins and love never ends.___Unknown
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.― Oscar Wilde
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.__Menacheim Begin
Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts. – Unknown
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.___Barbara Bush
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. – George Bernard Shaw
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
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.___Barbara Bush
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.― George Bernard Shaw
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.― Ellen DeGeneres
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.___Richard Bach
A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.____Pat Conroy
That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.― Deb Caletti
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.― Rick Riordan
Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.___Brad Henry
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family. – Siri Hustvedt
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.― Matt Groening
Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.___Anthony Liccione
In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.___Alex Haley
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.― Walt Whitman
Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.___Unknown
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.― Chuck Palahniuk
Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.___Marvin J. Ashton
Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.___Lisa Weed
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.― Ellen DeGeneres
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.___Irina Shayk
Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.___Unknown
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.― Oscar Wilde
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.___Friedrich Nietzsche
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.____Chinese Proverb
Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.___Martin Luther
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.___Jonathan Foer
God is the designer of the family.___Gordon B. Hinckley
There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on. – Leo Christopher
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.___Bobby Darin
The memories we make with our family are everything.___Candace Cameron Bure
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.___Philip Green
Family is family.___Linda Linney
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.___Mark Twain
We must take care of our families wherever we find them. – Elizabeth Gilbert
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.__Robert Byrd
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.___Reinhold Niebuhr
The family is the first essential cell of human society.__Pope John XXIII
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. – Jerry Seinfeld
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.___Michael Imperioli
Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.___Unknown
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns
To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.___Chinese Proverb
Being part of a family means smiling for photos.___Harry Morgan
Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t!___Unknown
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?___Trenton Lee Stewart
Writers will happen in the best of families.___Rita Mae Brown
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.__Niki Taylor
The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.___Dodie Smith
It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.___Peter Buffett
I sustain myself with the love of family.– Maya Angelou
When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.___Guy Lafleur
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.___Arundhati Roy
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.___Andre Maurois
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.___Confucius
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.___Mary Karr
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.___G.K. Chesterton
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.– John C. Maxwell
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.___Winston Churchill
That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.___Deb Caletti
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.___Benjamin Franklin
Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.___Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to 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
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct. – Jodi Picoult
When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.___Barbara Bush
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.___Marge Kennedy
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.___Haniel Long
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.– Mitch Albom
A family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.___Unknown
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. – Mitch Albom
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.___Elizabeth Berg
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.__Lee Iacocca
In time of test, family is best.___Burmese Proverb
The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.___Louis Zamperini
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.___Douglas Coupland
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. – Peter Pearsall
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.___C.S. Lewis
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.__Frederick Buechner
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.___Napoleon Bonaparte
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!__Albert Einstein
Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.___Barbara Bush
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.___Oscar Wilde
No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.___Calire LaZebnik
There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.___Willie Stargell