Family Reunion Quotes and Sayings

1. I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, “Identity Crisis,” M*A*S*H

2. Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein

3.  It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

4.  The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

5.  Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead

6. Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown

7. The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.  ~Robert Brault

8. If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

9. We all grow up with the weight of history on us.  Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.  ~Shirley Abbott

10. 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

11. A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.  ~Ogden Nash

12. 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

13. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.  ~Joyce Brothers

14. In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.  ~Margaret Laurence

15. 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, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

16. You don’t choose your family.  They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

17. An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.  ~Spanish Proverb
18. Blood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble
19. Best to seek out a relative’s open arms.
20. To forgive a family member is sometimes questionable, but to LOVE that family member is always the answer.

21. 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

22. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush

23. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.  ~George Bernard Shawn

24. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.  ~Robert Brault
25. We came, we saw, and we’re still conquering!

26. There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.  ~Herbert Prochnov

27. 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

28. Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.  Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.  ~Paul Pearshall

29. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.  ~Nancy Mitford

30. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.  ~Thomas Jefferson
31. Sometimes our hearts get tangled
32. And our souls a little off-kilter
33. Friends and family can set us right
34. And help guide us back to the light.
35. Just do it!

36. And thank you for a house full of people I love.  Amen.  ~Terri Guillemets

37. The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~Dodie Smith

38. Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?  ~Robert Brault

39. The great 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, The Day I Became an Autodidact

40. In time of test, family is best.  ~Burmese Proverb

41. Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves.  They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.  ~Marsha Norman

42. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.  ~Lee Iacocca

43. Friends are God’s apology for relations.  ~Hugh Kingsmill

44. They… threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow.  Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines.  Family life is like this – animated, but collateral.  ~Rose Macaulay

45. What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.  ~George Eliot

46. At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.  ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, “Easter”

47. 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

48. In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families – that they are least two-thirds incontinent.  ~Robert Brault

49. The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.  ~Marge Kennedy

50. The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.  ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason

51. We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.  ~Marquise de Sévigné

52. The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault

53. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.  ~Anthony Brandt

54. There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

55. Family faces are magic mirrors.  Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.  ~Gail Lumet Buckley

56. If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.  ~Robert Brault

57. Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

58. I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.  ~Fred Allen

59. The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.  No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child.  He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.  ~Pearl S. Buck