Famous quotes about family love and strength

Famous quotes about family love and strength

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

– Agatha Christie

“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

“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

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”

– Oscar Wilde

“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

“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

“When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”

– Libba Bray

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”

– Mark V. Olsen

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

– Jim Butcher

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

– Sam Levenson

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”

– David Ogden Stiers

“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

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

– Leo Tolstoy

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MOST INSPIRATIONAL FAMILY QUOTES

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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.20
-Mother Theresa

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Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.19
-Brad Henry

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I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
-Michael Landon
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When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.
-Dillon Burroughs
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
-Lee Iacocca

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The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
-M. Grundler
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Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.15
-Anthony Liccione
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If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.
-Adam Carolla
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Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family
-Anthony Brandt
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When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.
-Guy Lafleur
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Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.
-Unknown
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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.16
-Confucius
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The family is the first essential cell of human society.
-Pope John XXIII
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-Thomas Jefferson

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
-Eva Burrows
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Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
-Bo Bennett
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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.
-Winston Churchill
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
-Frank Knox
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You don’t do that. You don’t just leave your family. Sticking together… it’s the only way to survive
-Kiera Cass
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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.
-George Eliot
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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
-George Santayana
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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

Great Quotes About Grandparents

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." – Alex Haley

"Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven." – Bryna Nelson Paston

"One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather." – Joy Hargrove

"Young people need something stable to hang on to — a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them." – Jay Kesler

"If nothing is going well, call your grandmother." – Italian proverb

"What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies." – Rudolph Giuliani

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete." – Marcy DeMaree

"Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap." – Doug Larson

"When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window." – Ogden Nash

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson." – Victor Hugo

"Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels." – Lexie Saige

"A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart." – Unknown

"Every house needs a grandmother in it." – Louisa May Alcott

"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric." – Pam Brown

"You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life." – Kitty Tsui

Beautiful Family Quotes and Sayings

“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.”

“Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.”

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
» Anthony Liccione

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
» Desmond Tutu

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“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
 » Johnny Depp

“Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.”
» Josiah

“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.”
» Buddha

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
 » Harry S. Truman

“Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.”

“Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.”
 » Stephanie Marston

“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
» Elizabeth Gilbert

“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.”
» Virginia Satir

“No family is perfect… we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, family is family… The love will always be there.”

“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

Father Daughter Quotes

Fathers, be your daughter’s 1st love and she’ll never settle for anything less.

 When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and  everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
-Hugh Jackman

I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.
-Paul Walkertur

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
-David Duchovny

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.
-Euripides

I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.
-Paul Walkertur

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
-David Duchovny

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.
-Euripides

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
-Bindi Irwin

Quotations about Grandparents & Grandkids

Quotations about Grandparents & Grandkids - Best quotes about life

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
 ~Author Unknown


What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.
~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
 ~Author Unknown


Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
~Author Unknown


Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~Welsh Proverb


A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
~Charles and Ann Morse


A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
~Author Unknown


What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
 ~Rudy Giuliani


A house needs a grandma in it.
~Louisa May Alcott


Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.
~Ruth Goode


Never have children, only grandchildren.
~Gore Vidal


I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain.
~Gene Perret


There’s no place like home... except Grandma’s.
~Author Unknown


If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley


Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
~Pam Brown


We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
~Phyllis Theroux


It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
~Igor Stravinsky


Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
~Allan Frome

Kids Growing Up Sayings and Quotes

Kids Growing Up Sayings and Quotes

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.    

— C.S. Lewis


Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.    

— Anne Frank


Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.    

— Mitch Albom

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.    

— Stacia Tauscher


While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.    

— Angela Schwindt


Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.    

— Phyllis Diller


To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.    

— Euripides


I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!    

— Sally Ride


Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.    

— B. B. King


When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.    

— Patrick Rothfuss


Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.    

— J.M. Barrie


Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.    

— Virginia Woolf


A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark    

— Chinese Proverb


Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them    

— Lady Bird Johnson


Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music    

— William Stafford


Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.    

— The Wonder Years


The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.    

— Alden Nowlan


You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.    

— John J. Plomp


Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.    

— Kishore Bansal


Dear Mom, You get mad at me for not acting my age, and then start crying because I'm 'growing up too fast.' Sincerely, pick one!    

— unknown


Old enough to see that it's wrong, young enough to do it anyway!    

— Abhishek Tiwari


If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.    

— P.D. James


Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.    

— Colleen Parro