Family Quotes and Sayings

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
- Charles Dickens

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-Bernard Shaw

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.
-Shakespeare

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Theodore Hesburgh

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-George Burns

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy

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

I never forget my wife’s birthday. It’s usually the day after she reminds me about it.
-Anonymous

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
-George Santayana

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.
-Auguste Napier

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
-Elizabeth II

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
-Francis Bacon

It is easier for a father to have children than The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson