Famous Family Quotations
Family is an important part of our Life. It plays a very important role in our success and achievement. Family helps us shaping up our personality as well as the life. Family helps us develop the skills and knowledge required for acceptance by others. A family full of loving and caring members can make your life heaven.
Below are some Famous Family Quotes by famous authors which are my favorite.
1. Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. —-SUSAN LIEBERMAN, New Traditions
2. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. —–Thomas Jefferson
3. The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have. —-Ring Lardner
4. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ——George Bernard Shaw
5. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. —-George Bernard Shaw
6. The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It … is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.—– MARIANNE E. NEIFERT, Dr. Mom’s Parenting Guide
7. In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family. —-Alfred Adler 8. Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. —-Paul Pearshall
9. Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. —-Rosaleen Dickson
10. Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. —-Friedrich Nietzsche
11. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of others.—Pope John Paul II
12. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. —-George Bernard Shaw
13. Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from. —-A.M. HOMES, O Magazine, Apr. 2007
14. There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. —–Anwar el Sadat
15. A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. —-Buddha
16. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. -Lee Iacocca —–