Quotes About Family

A happy family is but an earlier Heaven. - John Bowring


It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. - Johann Schiller


The great 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 Day I Became an Autodidact


The family is a haven in a heartless world. - Christopher Lasch


A family vacation is one where you arrive with five bags, four kids and seven I-thought-you-packed-it's. - Ivern Ball


Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. - Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What?


Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. - Author Unknown


The family fireside is the best of schools. - Arnold H. Glasow


My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it. - Clarence Budington Kelland


If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. - Ashleigh Brilliant


Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. - Shirley Abbott


One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert


To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush


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


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


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The worst mistake any of us can possibly make is to take our family for granted. Our family should come before work, co-workers, and even our closest friends. They should be treated better than we would treat a chest full of treasure because they're worth far more than the largest chest could hold.

Sadly, however, our family often gets our "left overs." We give our "A game" to our job, customers, clients, boss, co-workers, and friends. Our family often gets what's left. It isn't something any of us intentionally do, after all we love our family more than we love our next breath. However, they've always been there and we fully expect them to always be there. A little time spent with C.S. (also known as Common Sense) tells us that just isn't so.

Value and respect your family more than you value and respect anyone or anything on earth. Let them know how important they are to you, through actions as well as words.