90 Short Family Quotes To Cherish Your Love & Bond

Looking for short quotes about family? We have rounded up the best collection of short family quotes, sayings, captions, messages, and proverbs, (with images and pictures) which reflect the importance of our family in our lives.

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Family plays the most important role in our lives. Great writers have great insights into the importance of family bonds.

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The family bond is a fundamental connection that forms the foundation of our lives. It encompasses the ties that bind us to our parents, siblings, grandparents, and extended relatives, creating a network of love, support, and shared experiences.

Famous words from celebrated thinkers like Mother Teresa, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, and George Bernard Shaw, among others, and see what they’ve had to say about family love.

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Short Family Quotes & Sayings

1. “Family is the heart of a home.” – Unknown

   
2. “Together, we make a family.” – Unknown
3. “This is our happily ever after.” – Unknown
4. “Family: Being loved no matter what…” – Unknown

   

5. “Family is family.” – Linda Linney
6. “Home is where the story begins.” – Unknown
7. “Family is a gift that lasts forever.” – Unknown
8. “Where there is family, there is love.” – Unknown

   

9. “Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.” – Unknown

   

10. “In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb

    

11. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

    

12. “Family: where life begins and love never ends.” – Unknown
13. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
14. “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” – Walt Disney
15. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
16. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom
17. “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.¨ — Jerry Seinfeld
18. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”― Walt Whitman
19. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein
20. “Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers
21. “I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” — Barbara Bush
22. “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – Stitch
23. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ― Anthony Brandt
24. “Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.” — Unknown
25. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” – John C. Maxwell
26. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
27. “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” — Barbara Bush
28. “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
29. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” — Desmond Tutu
30. “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ― George Bernard Shaw
31. “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
32. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”― Napoleon Bonaparte
33. “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”― Jonathan Safran Foer
34. “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” — Menacheim Begin
35. “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.” – Jim Butcher
36. “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” – Michael Imperioli
37. “If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
38. “Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
39. “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
40. “Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.” – Unknown
41. “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.” — Robert Frost
42. “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
43. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” – Winston Churchill

Short Family Love Quotes

1. “Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf
2. “Friends are the family you choose.”― Jess C. Scott
3. “I sustain myself with the love of family.”― Maya Angelou

   

4. “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” – Harry Morgan
5. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” — Princess Diana
6. “Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts.” — Les Dawson
7. “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” — Paul Pearsall
8. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
9. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
10. “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” – Romans 12:9
11. “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” — Mary Karr
12. “The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” — Louis Zamperini
13. “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
14. “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown
15. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
16. “Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” – Wanda Hope Carter
17. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
18. “Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” – Niki Taylor
19. “You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” — Lilly Singh
20. “A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – Robert Brault
21. “Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
22. “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares
23. “The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt
24. “Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” – Courtland Milloy
25. “A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” — Brad Pitt
26. “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”― Deb Caletti
27. “The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
28. “Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” – Lisa Weed
29. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
30. “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.” — Haniel Long

Meaningful Short Family Quotes

1. “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.” — José Carreras

   

2. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” — Walt Disney
3. “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” – Guy Lafleur
4. “My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.” — Siri Hustvedt
5. “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” – Coco
6. “The memories we make with our family is everything.” – Candace Cameron Bure
7. “Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” — Martin Mull
8. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
9. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney
10. “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire
11. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” — Khalil Gibran
12. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy
13. “In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley
14. “Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.” — Unknown
15. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore
16. “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca
17. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
18. “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” — Elizabeth Berg
19. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
20. “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
21. “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.”― Robin Hobb
22. “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.” ― C.S. Lewis
23. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
24. “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
25. “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” — Margaret Mead
26. “The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” — Kendall Hailey
27. “My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.” — Jodi Picoult
28. “Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.” ― Sarah Dessen
29. “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.”― Chuck Palahniuk
30. “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.” ― Rick Riordan

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