Family Quotes

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

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.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Men are what their mothers made them.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.