Famous Family Quotations

by Sandy

Family is a bond of love, affection, faith, joy, friendship and respect. It is a very important part of our everyday life. Family makes us feel happy when we are sad. Family helps us survive through tough times. Our success depends on our family. The importance of being in a family can be realized only when we are far away from our family. Lot of people thinks that their successes and talent make them lucky, but I would say it was having a Good and supportive Family that makes you lucky.

Below are some famous Family Quotes to remind you the importance of Family.

1. Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. —-SUSAN LIEBERMAN, New Traditions

2. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. —-Dr. Seuss

3. The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have. —-Ring Lardner

4. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. –Dr. Joyce Brothers

5. We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. —Henry Ward Beecher

6. The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. —–John Keats

7. In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family. —-Alfred Adler 8. 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

9. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. —- Chinese Proverb

10. Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. —–THOMAS MOORE

11. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of others.—Pope John Paul II

12. Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. —-MOBY, I Like to Score

13. Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from. —-A.M. HOMES, O Magazine, Apr. 2007

14. Family can pull you left and right because they haven’t seen you, but I love it. by Justin Guarini

15. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. —–Jim Valvano

18. I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that’s all that matters. —–Lance Armstrong

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