Whether you've found this page looking for a few lovely words to send a family member to show you appreciate everything they've done and felt for you over all these years...
Or..
You're here because you ran to your room or office fleeing from the other nutballs you share the house with and need to know there are others out there who get it: Your family is made up of unbalanced lunatics!
Either way, these family quotes should serve you well!

Funny Family Quotes
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
(Wayne H.)
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
(SAM LEVENSON)
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
(George Burns)
“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)
"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts."
(Anonymous)
"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet."
(Bill Cosby)
"My husband and I have decided to start a family while my parents are still young enough to look after them."
(Rita Rudner)
"Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for."
(Jerry Seinfeld)
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"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins."
(Josh Billings)
"Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband."
(HL Mencken)
“A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.”
(Anonymous)
"Santa Claus has the right idea. Only visit people once a year."
(Victor Borge)
"My mother didn't breast feed me. She said she just liked me as a friend."
(Rodney Dangerfield)
"I'm going home next week. It's a kind of energency - my parents are coming here."
(Rita Rudner)
"I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me."
(Rodney Dangerfield)
"Teenagers, are you tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now. Move out, get a job, and pay your own bills - while you still know everything."
(John Hinde)
"Friends are God's apology for relations."
(Hugh Kingsmill)
Heartwarming Family Quotes
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”
(Anthony Brandt)
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."
(Buddha)
"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)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
(Dr. Seuss)
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"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree."
(Helen Keller)
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
"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?”
(Elbert Hubbard)
“Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice”
(Anonymous)
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it."
(George Moore)
"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
(Dodie Smith)
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”
(Alex Haley)
“No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office”
(Anonymous)
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
(Eva Burrows)
"The family. We were 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, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
(Erma Bombeck)
"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."
(Jim Rohn)
"In time of test, family is best."
(Burmese Proverb)
I hope you enjoyed this collection of family quotes!
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