“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares
“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” –John C. Maxwell
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” –Romans 12:9
“My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ― Rick Riordan
“The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”― Walt Whitman
“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” –Lil’ Kim
“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles." – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
“Family is family.” – Linda Linney
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
“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
“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges
¨I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”― Matt Groening
“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
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” – Marge Kennedy
“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
¨You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.¨ — Desmond Tutu
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
¨Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.¨ — Margaret Mead
“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
"A man should never neglect his family for business." — Walt Disney
"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
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.¨ — Khalil Gibran
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
"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
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” –Michael J. Fox
“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
"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." — George Carlin
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.” – Jim Butcher
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
"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
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” –Coco
“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers
“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
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
