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A collection of best quotes and sayings on family including lines on love, bonding etc.

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Great Family Quotes For One Big Happy Family

In a world of uncertainty, it is the family that comes as a shield and a source of inspiration. You cannot chose your family, nor can you trade them, yet out of all the people in your world they are the ones who know you best and will stand through your thick and thin. Their unconditional love and support is what keeps us going in the most turbulent times. We have created a corpus of some heart-warming and inspirational quotations and sayings on family that will remind you of the importance of these special bonds and people in your life. Read through the quotes and thoughts on family that reflect the complexities that we face and the eternal love that we share within our families.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
Bil Keane

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.
Bil Keane

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

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
Bil Keane

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

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

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.

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

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
Bil Keane

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

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

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
Steven Spielberg

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
Steven Spielberg

I sustain myself with the love of family.

I sustain myself with the love of family.
Maya Angelou

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.
Amy Sedaris

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Hal Borland

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.
Anderson Cooper

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.
Amy Sedaris

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.

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.
Mother Teresa

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret Atwood

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
Aung San Suu Kyi

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
Harper Lee

Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.
Robert F. Kennedy

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
Betty Friedan

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
Robert F. Kennedy

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.
Roseanne Barr

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Mario Puzo

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Charles Dickens