Quotes about Family and Life

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it.
- George Moore


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 


Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice.
It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
- Reinhold Niebuhr


A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- John Bowring  

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
- Mario Puzo

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for— its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

- Florence Nightingale

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

- Marge Kennedy



The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- Confucius 




The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 



There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- Beecher, Henry Ward 


The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- Franklin, Benjamin