Family Quotes

  • Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
    ~ Paul Pearshall
  • There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
    ~ Herbert Prochnov
  • In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
    ~ Robert Brault
  • 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
  • When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
    ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
    ~ Barbara Bush
  • The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
    ~ Thomas Jefferson
  • Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
    ~ Author Unknown
  • You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
    ~ Desmond Tutu
  • In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
    ~ Margaret Laurence
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