Few Family Quotes to Live By

Family is one of the most vital entities in the community. So, it is the solid base of a strong and progressive society.

There are various quotes about the family. Each was said by popular and ordinary individuals to give inspiration as well as guidance to the family in keeping a beautiful relationship with one another. I picked some of the well-known sayings and quotes that you can live by each day. It will be nice to impart there with the family members via e-mails or by posting your selected quotes on the walls of your home.

• Family quarrels are bitter things.  They don't go by 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
• At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.  ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"
• Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. ~ Thomas Moore
• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. ~ Eva Burrows
• Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.~ Jim Rohn
• The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.  ~Erma Bombeck
• Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others.  Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, 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, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
• You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  ~Desmond Tutu
• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.  ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813
• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush
• Love your family. They are your safest refuge at time of adversities. ~ by Yours Truly. =)