Family can be the source of fun, source of frustration or just the source of all your best stories. So we have put together a list of all the best short family quotes for Instagram for you to share. And if you’re looking for short family sayings, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Family Quotes for Instagram
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.” ― Bobby Darin
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.” ― Alex Haley
“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” ― Gracie Allen
“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” ― Bo Bennett
“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” ― Buddy Hackett
“There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” ― Willie Stargell
Small moments. Big memories.
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ― Anthony Brandt
“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” ― Guy Lafleur
“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” ― Louis Zamperini
Family >>>
“Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.” ― S. Bryan
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” ― Elizabeth Berg
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” ― Erma Bombeck
Laughter brings a family closer.
“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” ― Kendall Hailey
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” ― Jesse Jackson
This is my happy place.
This is us.
A couple of nuts off the family tree.
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” ― Ring Lardner
Family is the gift that lasts forever.
BRB: On family vacation.
Family time is perfect content.
“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
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.” ― Arundhati Roy
“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” ― Irina Shayk
Epic family moment!
Home is our happy place.
Cherish every moment.
These are the days we live for.
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” ― Barbara Bush
Happiness is homemade.
“Love is the foundation of strength in a family.” ― Melissa Foster
Feeling connected to my family
We got this.
“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
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ― Brad Henry
“Time together as a family is a gift.” ― Joanna Gaines
Time with family is time well spent.
Those summer days.
Partners-in-crime.
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” ― Ogden Nash
My heart is full.
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
We’ll always be a team.
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” ― Confucius
“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
Through thick and thin.
“Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off.” ― Ralph Bus
“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
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” ― Anthony Liccione
“The memories we make with our family are everything.” ― Candace Cameron Bure
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” ― Jonathan Foer
“I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.” ― Jamie Lee Curtis
Love, care, and respect
Ohana means family.
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” ― Rodney Dangerfield
“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ― Dodie Smith
Partners from beginning to end.
“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
The heart of our home.
“My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.” ― Benjamin Bratt
“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” ― Philip Green
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom.” ― Bob Hope
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” ― David Ogden Stiers
This family ain’t complete without me.
“Family strength is a marvellous thing.” ― Agatha Christie
United we stand.
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” ― Richard Bach
“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” ― Michael Imperioli
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” ― Marge Kennedy
We laugh, we cry, we make time fly.
Family Moments.
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” ― Niki Taylor
“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.” ― Lois Wyse
“In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families, that they are at least two-thirds incontinent.” ― Robert Brault
“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
Everything I am, you helped me be.
Home is not a place. It’s a feeling.
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa
“The only strength that really matters is the strength that makes you what you are in the eyes of those you love.” ― Wes Fessler
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” ― John Wooden
Little things mean a lot.
“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
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” ― Andre Maurois
Dad jokes up ahead.
My family is my little village.
“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.” ― Vartan Gregorian
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.” ― Anna Quindlen
“I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life.” ― Lee Iacocca
“I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.” ― Jet Li
Passports, planes, and family time.
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” ― Cary Grant
“Family is a lifejacket in the stormy sea of life.” ― J.K. Rowling
“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.” ― Herbert V. Prochnow
“Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
We go together like PB&J.
I’d rather be with my family.
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” ― Wanda Hope Carter
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ― Mark V. Olsen
Home time is the best time.
“The love of a family is a life’s greatest blessing.” ― Eva Burrows
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” ― George W. Bush
Always better together.
“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” ― Michael J. Fox
“Family life is our strength and success.” ― Joseph Losery
“Family is the most important thing in the world.” ― Princess Diana
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” ― Lee Iacocca
Good family vibes only.
Sisters are joined heart to heart.
Home is people. Not a place.
“Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” ― Harry Morgan
“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.” ― Barbara Bush
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.” ― Wayne Huizenga
“Writers will happen in the best of families.” ― Rita Mae Brown
Family makes a house a home.
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” ― Peter Buffett
“Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.” ― Francis Bacon
“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
“The foundation of family—that’s where it all begins for me.” ― Faith Hill
Lean on me, count on me, tell on me.
“Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy.” ― Jenna Morasca
Let’s get ready to rumble!
We’re stuck together like glue.
You call it chaos. We call it family.
Crazy family!
“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.” ― Amos Oz
“Family is more than blood.” ― Cassandra Clare
“Our family is a circle of strength and love….” ― Harriet Morgan
Thankful! Grateful! Blessed!
Thankful that I can call you family.
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” ― Mario Puzo
“Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” ― Lilo & Stitch
“Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” ― Josiah
Home is where mom is.
Dad jokes up ahead.
Family Is The key To everything
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” ― Paul Pearsall
“I sustain myself with the love of family.” ― Maya Angelou
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.” ― Jim Butcher
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ― Desmond Tutu
Blessed with the best.
Family love is never broken.
Family is forever!
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
Giggle time.
Best family ever!
“Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” ― Harry Morgan
“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.” ― Barbara Bush
“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
“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” ― Coco
Happy Happy life.
Family is forever
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” ― Albert Einstein
“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
“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
“Family is family.” ― Linda Linney
“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” ― Vito Corleone, The Godfather
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Blood is thicker than water.
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.” ― Barbara Bush
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” ― Pope John XXIII
“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.” ― Ashleigh Brilliant
Don’t try to mess with us!
“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.” ― Mitch Albom
“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
“God is the designer of the family.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley
“Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow.” ― Bill Owens
“My family is my strength and my weakness.” ― Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
“A man should never neglect his family for business.” ― Walt Disney
In good company.
“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear, and they are there for me in the good times and bad times.” ― Kelly Clarkson
Together is a wonderful place to be.
“Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.” ― Dave Willis
“You need a strong family because, at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally.” ― Esha Gupta
Love + Care=Family.
“Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect but who’s complaining?” ― Robert Brault
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ― Pierce Brown
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?” ― Jeff Lindsay
This family rules!
Crazy runs in the family.
“One’s family is the most important thing in life.” ― Robert Byrd
Rolling with the Fam.
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ― Winnie The Pooh
A hug from family lasts a lifetime.
So that is it for our list of Short Family Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
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Laynni Deir
I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.
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