Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.- Michael J. Fox
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. -Alex Haley
My family is my strength and my weakness. – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. -Richard Bach
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. -Lee Iacocca
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. -Desmond Tutu
Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family. -Grace Kelly
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have. -Ring Lardner
The family is the first essential cell of human society.- Pope John
Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.- Barbara Bush
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Anita Baker
Tennis just a game, family is forever.- Serena Williams
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. –Khalil Gibran
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. -A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that. –Janet Jackson
I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. –LaToya Jackson
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. -Christopher Love
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.- Jim Carrey
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. -Jessica Lange
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.- David A. Bednar
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. -Virginia Satir
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. –Agnes Smedley
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. –Darius Rucker
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. –Angelina Jolie
I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family.’ I don’t feel that sense of urgency. –George Clooney
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children. –Ednita Nazario
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. –Bernice Weissbourd
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. –Gertrude Stein
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. –John Cheever
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. –Mitt Romney
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. –Elizabeth Fishel
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. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.- Haniel Long
My parents, my family, that’s the biggest inspiration in my life. I’ve been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.- J. R. Smith