Family Life Quotes

Welcome to our collection of Family Life Quotes, where we celebrate the beauty, complexity, and joy of familial bonds. Family is the cornerstone of our lives, shaping our identities, nurturing us through challenges, and providing unwavering support. Whether it’s the laughter shared around the dinner table, the comforting embrace in times of need, or the simple moments of togetherness, family enriches our lives in countless ways.

Throughout history, writers, poets, philosophers, and everyday people have sought to capture the essence of family life in words. In this curated selection of quotes, you’ll find insights, reflections, and sentiments that encapsulate the myriad emotions and experiences that come with being part of a family. From profound observations to heartwarming anecdotes, these quotes offer glimpses into the universal truths and unique dynamics that define family relationships. So, whether you’re seeking inspiration, comfort, or simply a moment of reflection, we invite you to explore the profound wisdom and beauty of family life through these timeless quotes. Now, without further ado, let the quotes below inspire you in your own journey of family life.

I don’t hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that. Mohanlal

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. Novalis

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. Margaret Drabble

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. Willie Aames

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. George W. S. Trow

Our family life was certainly not intellectual. Douglass North

Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there’s still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual. Cindy Crawford

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there’s a huge nurturing element in it. Jade Jagger

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it’s up to all of us to keep it together. Mary Berry

It’s really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically. Jeb Bush

The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors. Peter A. Levine

I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That’s what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can. Hope Solo

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is. Tony Dungy

The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It’s associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family – apart from a clog-dancer way back. Jools Holland

My family life reads a bit like ‘Little House on the Prairie.’ I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas. Maeve Binchy

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me. Zachary Taylor

The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks. Dorothy Hamill

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner. Michel Martelly

The happiest people I’ve found are in science. These people have three times the IQ – maybe I’m exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they’re doing, they have a good family life, they’re satisfied. Eli Broad

We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who’s happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted. Bernie Siegel

I don’t believe in revenge. When people are bullies it’s because of a deeper-rooted issue – either their family life is tough or they’re being bullied by someone bigger than they are. Khloe Kardashian

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community. Jim Ratcliffe

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life – to real life, you could almost say – and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. John Updike

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

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series. Jerry Mathers

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life – my father and mother are still in love, still happy. Caterina Murino

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. Lily Rabe

I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can. Hope Solo

The message I really want to get out there is that I’m someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life. Luke Donald

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II

‘Family Life’ is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn’t attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak. Akhil Sharma

The two together are a really great combo: the family life and then being able to go play some shows and write. Vonda Shepard

In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity. Radhanath Swami

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I’m passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them. Olivia Williams

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. Al Goldstein

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people – all people – has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. Andre Braugher

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation. Ellen Key

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo. Shania Twain

I feel I’m able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won’t have to live through it, I guess. Jodi Picoult

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. Vivienne Westwood

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. Julius Erving

The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges. Stephanie Coontz

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. Albert Bandura

Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and I was in a household with two loving parents and an adoring grandmother who spoiled me. My mother helped my father in their wholesale business and they went to synagogue every Friday. Ruth Westheimer

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended. Robert Frost

You know, we’re very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There’s things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can. Tim McGraw

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters. Charles Kennedy

One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order. Robert Kennedy

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Reinhold Niebuhr

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. Daisaku Ikeda

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don’t want to sacrifice anybody else’s privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don’t love them. I think I’ve been a really good dad; at least, I try to be. Scott Turow

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark

I didn’t have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I’ve been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me. Josh Turner

I come from a great family. I’ve seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. Sidney Poitier

Those songs are about getting out; they’re not about getting out of family. It wasn’t about how family life was curtailing because I didn’t know family life. Bob Geldof

Why, on my mother’s birthday, am I thinking about ‘Father Knows Best?’ At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. Tom Shales

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. Christopher Lasch

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there. Robert Cormier

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. Alice Walker

I’m not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I’m a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day. Carla Bruni

There’s no perfection in family life, and certainly we aren’t perfect, but we’re probably about as close as we can be. John C. Bogle

If you can make the family life and the music work together that’s wonderful. If you can make it work. Edwin Starr

The worst thing a man can admit is ‘I’m not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.’ But it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did. David Duchovny

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors’ appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time. Segolene Royal

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she’s amazing. Noel Gallagher

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. George Cadbury

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. Todd Akin

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. Ibrahim Babangida

I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We’ve got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I’ve had incredible women around me in the business. Tamsin Greig

When you have children, you don’t have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling. Julianne Moore

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don’t easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity – and responsibility – to structure their own space to reflect what’s important to them. Virginia Postrel

Family life is tough, I’ll say that for it. But in my case, I’ve mined the family. In a sense, I’ve used it. I’ve used what happened – the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they’re all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add. Loudon Wainwright III

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. Julius Erving

My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’ Candace Cameron Bure

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it. Jerry Reinsdorf

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life. Gauri Khan

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood. Bernice Weissbourd

Because I have a dog, it’s easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird ‘Mastermind’-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I’ve no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities. Miranda Hart

There aren’t a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here’s one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here’s betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you’re a parent, so do you. Jeffrey Kluger

For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. Karl Marlantes

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Barbara Bush

Working 24 hours a day isn’t enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it’s any less, they’re wrong, and they will fail. Kevin O’Leary

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. Theresa May

It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don’t have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It’s just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs. Kathy Najimy

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn’t always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it. Regina King

We have freedoms and boundaries; we just have a great family life. Kelly Preston

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. Marie Curie

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Divyanka Tripathi

It’s one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it – the better to preserve the good thing they’ve got going and to keep their siblings off their back. Jeffrey Kluger

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had. Shana Alexander

I don’t come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. Cat Power

My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me. Julianne Moore

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life. Oliver Hudson

It definitely puts a strain on family life – I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I’ve been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year. Louise Jameson

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out. Ice Cube

Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life. Gordon Brown

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it’s, it’s time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena. Thaksin Shinawatra

Anton Usov

I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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