When you think about it, a family is quite an odd unit - a bunch of people that you have to get along with despite the differences. Of course, we aren’t talking about extreme cases when the best thing you can do is cut all the strings of attachment from them, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s just stick to the happy median of a somewhat functional family. So, a bunch of pretty random people that you have to find common ground with. It gets messy with differing views and exaggerated emotions at times, but if you manage to get it all right, a loving family might be one of the best things humans know. And these beautiful family quotes will be talking precisely about such cases!
So, in the case of getting it right, a family turns into a real tight-knit clan - it’s like the three musketeers where one stands for all and all stand for one. Add in a copious amount of unconditional love, and there you have it - a family. For those few of us who have that feeling entering the leagues of our extended family - uncles, aunts, cousins, and all the rest - it’s like living in an entirely different world where you are always understood, challenged to be better, and supported by likeminded people every step of the way. So yeah, these family quotes will celebrate that and share the joys of unequivocal kinship with you.
Now is probably the time to scroll down to the happy family quotes, don’t you think? Once you are there, vote for the moving quotes that gave you that warm feeling inside and share this heartening selection with the best people around you - your family.
#1
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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#2
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – Robert Brault
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#3
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
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“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” — Margaret Mead
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“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or happier, or more exasperated, or more secure.” – Jim Butcher
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“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley
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“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
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#9
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”― Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares
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“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
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#12
“I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” — Barbara Bush
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#13
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” ― Jay McInerney
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#14
“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”― Stieg Larsson
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#15
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” — Mary Karr
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“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” — Paul Pearsall
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#17
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” — Martin Mull
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#18
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore
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#19
“Families should celebrate each member's unique identity.”
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#20
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett
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