Quotes on Family

FAMILY


I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.


― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.


― Trenton Lee Stewart


I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.


― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t.


― Mitch Albom

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?


― Rick Riordan

What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.


― Gladys M. Hunt

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.


― Angela Schwindt