“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”
Mark Twain
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Family Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FAMILY
Family Quotes
Read 200 of the best family quotes about home, mothers, siblings, parents and the love that holds families together, from Dickens, Austen, the Bible and more.
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.”
Charles Dickens
Family LifeFunny
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HomeHospitality
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
George Eliot
RemembranceLoved Ones
“There is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.”
Homer
MarriageUnity
“When harmony no longer prevailed throughout the six kinships, filial sons found their manifestation.”
Lao Tzu
Family HarmonyWisdom
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:28)
MothersPraise
“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.”
The Bible (Isaiah 66:13)
MothersComfort
“My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
The Bible (Proverbs 6:20)
ParentsWisdom
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
The Bible (Psalm 133:1)
UnitySiblings
“Am I my brother's keeper?”
The Bible (Genesis 4:9)
BrothersResponsibility
“I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.”
The Bible (Genesis 45:4-5)
ForgivenessReunion
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:24)
MarriageNew Family
“God setteth the solitary in families.”
The Bible (Psalm 68:6)
BelongingFaith
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 5:8)
ProvidingResponsibility
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.”
The Bible (Proverbs 11:29)
Family HarmonyConsequences
“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
The Bible (Mark 3:25)
UnityStrength
“For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
The Bible (Mark 3:35)
Spiritual FamilyFaith
“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.”
The Bible (Ephesians 3:14-15)
God's FamilyPrayer
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
The Bible (Colossians 3:20)
ChildrenRespect
“But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children.”
The Bible (Psalm 103:17)
GenerationsBlessing
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:27)
MothersHard Work
“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”
The Bible (Joel 1:3)
GenerationsStorytelling
“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice.”
The Bible (2 Timothy 1:5)
GrandmothersLegacy
“And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
The Bible (Genesis 12:3)
BlessingAll Families