Famous People on Family

Over the years, well-known people have come up with humorous and often thought-provoking quotes about family. Whether the quotes are from writers, actors, or celebrities, they're likely to encourage you to view your family from new, amusing, or refreshing perspectives, so here is our collection of sayings on family curated by the Likablee review team.

• "I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap." - Rodney Dangerfield

• "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." - Erma Bombeck

• "There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more... secure." - Jim Butcher

• "Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum." - Rick Riordan

• "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns

• "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

• "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

• "I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world." - Amos Oz

• "The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended." - Robert Frost

• "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

• "The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst." - Marge Kennedy

• "One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor." - Ralph Fiennes

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Three Books the Whole Family Will Enjoy

If you are looking for some great reads the entire family can enjoy together, then look no further than these books curated by the Likablee review team.

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Leisl Shurtliff

This book turns all of our preconceived notions of Rumplestiltskin on their heads! Rump (as he’s known in his village) is a twelve-year-old boy trying to live up to his name in a place where words mean everything. He feels empty until he discovers that he has a gift of turning straw into gold! But wait…it’s not a gift – it’s a curse! Journey with Rump as he goes on a quest to undo the magical spell that may ruin his life forever.

Not your typical fairytale book and everyone in the family will laugh at least once!

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

You’ll fall in love with spunky Miss Moses LeBeau, a sixth-grader who has found an unlikely home with the mysterious Colonel and the excellent cafe owner, Miss Lana. Together with her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, Mo will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you hope that she will be able to save her precious (but admittedly strange) family.

It’s funny. It’s heart-warming. And boys and girls alike will fall in love with it.

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

Have you ever wanted to sleep overnight in the library? Well, even if you haven’t, you’d like to stay overnight in Mr. Lemoncello’s unique game-focused library, and Kyle Keely and eleven other kids get that chance! But when the doors don’t open at the end of the night, will Kyle and his friends can make it out of the library?

You’ll inadvertently learn an extreme amount about how libraries work, and the whole family will join in the games and sit at the end of their seats in suspense.

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