List Of Family Quotes and Sayings
- A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
2. A crab walks, so walks his children.
3. A father’s a treasure; a brother’s a comfort; a friend is both.
4. A house divided cannot stand.
5. Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home.
6. Blood is thicker than water.
7. Charity begins at home.
8. Children are a poor man’s riches.
9. Children have more need of models than critics.
1o. Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.
11. Home is where the heart is.
12. Like father, like son.
13. Like father, like son.
14. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
15. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
16. What children say, they have heard at home.
17. You can do anything with children if only you play with them.
18. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
19. We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
20. You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
21. An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
22. What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
23. Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
24. Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
25. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
26. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.
27. That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.
28. Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
29. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
31. To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
32. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
33. All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
34. Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
35. 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.
36. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
37. 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.
38. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
39. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
40. When you educate a man you educate an individual. When you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
41. The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
42. The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
43. When any trouble comes in home, all family members takes it as its own and this is called family love.
44. Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
45. A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
46. The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
47. We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
48. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
49. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
50. Families ties are cherished things, forged in childhood days, by love of parents, deep and true, and sweet familiar ways.
51. This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.