55 Family Reunion Quotes For Your Next Gathering

There is a family reunion saying for everyone.

These family reunion quotes and sayings remind us that family is everything. Family members give us a place to run to when we're feeling weak and provide us with unexplainable joy. Southerners grow up with an awareness of the importance of family from a very young age. The memories we make with our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents live on in our hearts long after the time passes. And some of the best times come from family reunions.

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We've gathered our favorite family reunion quotes and family reunion sayings to warm your heart. Use these quotes as Instagram captions, handwritten notes, or even to inspire your family reunion ideas. From funny to sentimental, there's something for everyone.

Albert Einstein Quote About Family

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Short Family Reunion Quotes

  • Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. - Albert Einstein
  • The only thing sweeter than union is reunion. - Kathleen McGowan
  • Love makes a family. - Gigi Kaeser
  • Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. - David Ogden Stiers
  • Family is not an important thing. It's everything. - Michael J. Fox
  • I sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou
  • Family is the most important thing in the world. - Princess Diana
  • A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw
  • The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana
  • We are who we are because they were who they were. – Unknown
  • Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom
  • The memories we make with our family are everything. - Candace Cameron Bure
  • May the roots of your family tree grow deep and strong. - Irish Blessing
  • Trees without roots fall over. - Unknown
  • Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family. - Walt Disney
Anthony Brandt Quote About Family

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Quotes About the Importance of Family

  • Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. - Anthony Brandt
  • You don't choose your family; they are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu
  • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush
  • 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
  • The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. - Lee Iacocca
  • 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
  • Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves. - Laura Ramirez
  • The great 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
  • Some of us can live without a society but not without a family. - Amit Kalantri
  • Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. - Paul Pearsall
  • 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
Strength of Family Quote

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Quotes About Strong Family Bonds

  • The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. - Mario Puzo
  • What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - George Eliot
  • 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
  • When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors. - Russell M. Nelson
  • If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. - Madeleine Engle
  • In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. - Alex Haley
  • One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. - Ralph Fiennes
  • The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. - Richard Bach
  • If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable—each segment distinct. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Family is Home Quote

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Family Reunion Quotes About Love

  • Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing. - Donna Hedges
  • Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves. - Gail Lumet Buckley
  • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa
  • This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. - Ellen Goodman
  • Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and at home. - Thomas S. Monson
  • Our family is a circle of strength; founded on faith, joined in love, kept by God, together forever. - Unknown
  • Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts, and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.  - Henry B. Eyring
  • When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. - Joyce Brothers
  • The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store—if I can get those things in, I’m doing good. - Kate Winslet
Funny Family Quote

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Funny Family Reunion Quotes

  • Insanity runs in my family; it practically gallops! - Cary Grant
  • No family is sane, is it? - Rebecca Hall
  • I wish I could relate to the people I’m related to. - Jeff Foxworthy
  • Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns
  • Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. - Jim Gaffigan
  • If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw
  • No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. - Jim Gaffigan
  • I don’t have to look up my family tree because I know that I’m the sap. - Fred Allen
  • If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members Not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same. - Robert Breaults
  • Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say. - Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
  • Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. - Wayne Huizenga
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