Family quotes
1.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside family — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond"
"I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name."
"You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing."
"The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person"
"we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use."
"Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit."
"For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization."
"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."
"My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child."
"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."
"The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it."
"Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold"
"Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times."
"Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us."
"When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp."
"As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families."
"Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack."
"Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity."
"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."
"Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."
