Quotes on Love Your Family

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.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

The family. We are 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. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

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 any more.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.