1. Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

- Lilo & Stitch

2. Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

- Trenton Lee Stewart

3. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

4. Family: where life begins and love never ends.

- Unknown

5. A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

- Mary Karr

6. It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

- Peter Buffett

7. There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

- Winston Churchill

8. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

9. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

- Chinese Proverb

10. That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

- Deb Caletti

11. Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

- Brad Henry

12. Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.

- Lisa Weed

13. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

- Benjamin Franklin

14. 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

15. Writers will happen in the best of families.

- Rita Mae Brown

16. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

17. Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.

- Michael J. Fox

18. In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

- Marge Kennedy

19. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

- George Moore

20. Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.

- Wanda Hope Carter

21. In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

22. Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

- Anthony Liccione

23. 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

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

- Dodie Smith

25. Family is the most important thing in the world.

- Princess Diana

26. Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.

- Marvin J. Ashton

27. Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.

- Unknown

28. Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

- Andre Maurois

29. Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.

- Unknown

30. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

- Jane Howard

31. Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.

- Unknown

32. When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.

- Barbara Bush

33. To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

34. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

- Arundhati Roy

35. A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

36. The family is the first essential cell of human society.

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Barbara Bush

38. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

39. Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

- Irina Shayk

40. The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.

- Louis Zamperini

41. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

- G.K. Chesterton

42. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

43. Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.

- Menacheim Begin

44. Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.

- Niki Taylor

45. My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.

- Bobby Darin

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

- Jonathan Foer

47. A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.

- Vito Corleone, The Godfather

48. When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

- Guy Lafleur

49. A family doesn’t have to perfect; it just needs to be united.

- Unknown

50. The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.

- C.S. Lewis

51. It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

- Philip Green

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

- Barbara Bush

53. God is the designer of the family.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

54. The most important thing in the world is family and love.

- John Wooden

55. The memories we make with our family are everything.

- Candace Cameron Bure

56. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

57. Family is more than blood.

- Cassandra Clare

58. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to 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

59. You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

- Elizabeth Berg

60. Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t!

- Unknown

61. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.

- Jim Butcher

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

- William Butler Yeats

63. At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

- Mark V. Olsen

64. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

- Richard Bach

65. Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

- Barbara Bush

66. Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.

- Unknown

67. No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

- Calire LaZebnik

68. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

- David Ogden Stiers

69. Being part of a family means smiling for photos.

- Harry Morgan

70. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

- Oscar Wilde

71. In time of test, family is best.

- Burmese Proverb

72. My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.

- Michael Imperioli

73. 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.

- Frederick Buechner

74. In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.

- Alex Haley

75. There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

- Willie Stargell

76. 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.

- Haniel Long

77. A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

- Pat Conroy

78. There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.

- Jim Butcher

79. Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

- Albert Einstein

80. Family is family.

- Linda Linney

81. A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

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

- Mother Teresa

83. One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.

- Robert Byrd

84. All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

- Douglas Coupland

85. Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

- Martin Luther