Inspirational Family Love Quotes - Page 2

• Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Being Thankful, Understanding

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

  Libba Bray

  Family, Home, Guilt

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• This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

  Arundhati Roy

  Family, Hurt, Doctors

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.70, Penguin Books India

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

  Douglas Coupland

  Family, Different, Next

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

  Josh McDowell

  Family, Parenting, Genuine Love

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Country, Children

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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• Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

  Robin Hobb

  Inspirational, Family, Home

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate”, Spectra

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• There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

  Jim Butcher

  Family, Home, Insane

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• Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

  Sam Levenson

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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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

  Life, Family, Love You

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2012

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

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• No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Family, Lying, Agency

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• When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

  Guy Lafleur

  Family, Support You, Vocabulary Words

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• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Happiness, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Home, Doubt

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Stranger, Knows

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

  Lance Armstrong

  Family, Morning, Mirrors

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• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to 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

  Family, Home, Skins

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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