Family it’s at the heart.
It’s here we find support, love and the people that often know us better than anyone else (and so they know what help we truly need).
And in today’s post I want to focus on that and share 110 of the most loving, positive and inspirational short family quotes.
Use them in a card, in a family group chat, on social media like Instagram or in real life to share the love, express your gratitude and to brighten the day of your family.
No matter if it’s the one you were born into or the one you’ve chosen.
Short Family Quotes on Love and Togetherness
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden
“Time together as a family is a gift.”
– Joanna Gaines
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti
“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.”
– Michael Imperioli
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox
“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
– Amalia G.
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
– Barbara Bush
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
– Albert Einstein
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou
“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”
– Lisa Weed
“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.”
– Charles Kuralt
“It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.”
– Menachem Begin
“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk
“The memories we make with our family is everything.”
– Candace Cameron Bure
“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.”
– Louis Zamperini
“Family is the most important thing in the world.”
– Princess Diana
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
– Eva Burrows
“Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
– Walt Disney
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
– Barbara Bush
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
– Paul McCartney
Short and Funny Family Quotes
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns
“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
– George Carlin
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
– Robert Brault
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
– Cary Grant
“My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan
“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet, with a few nuts.”
– Les Dawson
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
– Martin Mull
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
– Mary Karr
“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”
– Evan Esar
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.”
– Bob Hope
“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Remember, as far as anyone knows, we’re a nice, normal family.”
– Homer Simpson
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde
Short and Inspirational Family Quotes and Sayings
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
– Brad Henry
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.”
– Paul Pearsall
“I know for sure: Family should be the place where you can be your most complete self.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Think of your family today and every day thereafter. Don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.”
– Josiah
“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.”
– Lilly Singh
“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
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
– George Santayana
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
– Khalil Gibran
“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
– Haniel Long
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created, strengthened, and maintained.”
– Winston Churchill
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.”
– George Washington Carver
“Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.”
– Barack Obama
“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.”
– Jodi Picoult
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
– Lee Iacocca
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”
– Alex Haley
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
– Walt Disney
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”
– C.S. Lewis
“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.”
– Buddha
“With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.”
– Michelle Obama
“You go through life wondering what is it all about, but at the end of the day it’s all about family.”
– Rod Stewart
Positive and Short Family Quotes on the Bond You Share
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
– Richard Bach
“In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.”
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.”
– Niki Taylor
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are.”
– Dez Del Rio
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
– Mario Puzo
“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”
– Jim Butcher
“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
– Margaret Mead
“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
– Dodie Smith
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
– Elizabeth Berg
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
– Mitch Albom
“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.”
– Guy Lafleur
“It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
– Philip Green
“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
– John C. Maxwell
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
– Anthony Liccione
“My life is proof that no matter what situation you’re in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.”
– Michaela DePrince
“The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me.”
– Faith Hill
“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
“I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.”
– Jet Li
“Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow.”
– Bill Owens
Short, Cute and Deep Family Quotes
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
– Honore de Balzac
“May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.”
– Leonard Cohen
“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.”
– Amos Oz
“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 anymore.”
– Robin Hobb
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
– Pierce Brown
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended – and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.”
– Robert Frost
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
– Gail Lumet Buckley
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”
– Marge Kennedy
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
– Walt Whitman
“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
– Nancy Mitford
“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
– Kendall Hailey
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
– Anna Quindlen
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.”
– Ring Lardner
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
– Anita Baker
“I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”
– Reba McEntire
“I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.”
– José Carreras
Want more inspirational and short quotes on relationships? Then have a look at these short sister quotes, the short love quotes here and also this one with lots of short friendship quotes.