Whether you get together with your extended family every year, or once a decade, it’s important to cherish the time you get to spend with with family.
Here, we have a collection of quotes perfect for family reunions, parties, and get togethers.
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“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.-Alex Haley
“One wants to be together with one’s family. That’s what families are about.-Aung San Suu Yuki
“A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.-Heinlein
“Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one-Unknown
“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.-Rick Riordan
“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.-Ashleigh Brilliant
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!-Albert Einstein
“Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from the strength and experience of those who went before.-Heidi Swapp
“I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.-Doug Solter
“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.-Ralph Fiennes
“No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.-Claire LaZebnik
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.-Ugo Betti
“The family is a haven in a heartless world.-Christopher Lasch
“My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.-Rick Riordan
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.-George Burns
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.-Margaret Mead
“I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.-Sylvester Stallone
“Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.-Laura Ramirez
“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.-Barry Gibb
“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.-Douglas Coupland
“I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.-Viggo Mortensen
“When you marry someone, you marry their entire family.-Kevin Jonas
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.-Richard Bach
“There is no such thing as a normal family so don’t trip off it, just deal with it.-Ice T.
“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.-George Bernard Shaw
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.-Martin Mull
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.-Sam Levenson
“The purpose of family is to preserve life,’ Aunt Patti said. ‘We treat family members the way we’re supposed to treat everyone on the planet.’-Liz Rosenberg