Hello lovely!I don’t know about you, but I love to include sweet and inspiring quotes sometimes when I post a client sneak peek or when I’m writing a blog post (or putting tother my studio newsletter!)But sometimes, I just don’t have time to scroll through a bunch of ideas (because it’s so easy to get distracted!!).So we put compiled a list of quotes that you can use for quick inspiration whenever you need it!Pin this page so you can find it easily- and if you enjoy it, please share!! :)We’ve grouped them by topic such as family, parenthood, motherhood, etcEnjoy!

Family

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.~George Bernard Shaw

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.~Anthony Brandt

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.~George Santayana

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.~Mother Teresa

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

~David Ogden Stiers

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ~Charles R. Swindoll

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.~Lee Iacocca

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.~Alex Haley

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 not an important thing. It’s everything.~Michael J. Fox

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.~Richard Bach

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.~Stephanie Marston

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.~Bruce Barton

I sustain myself with the love of family.~Maya Angelou

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 you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.~Joyce Brothers

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

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

Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.~Elizabeth Stone

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

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Home

It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.~Peter Buffett

Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing.~Donna Hedges

A house is built by hands, but a home is built by heart.~Unknown

Where thou art, that is home.~Emily Dickinson

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.~Confucius

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.~Maya Angelou

Home is where family lives, loves, laughs and your heart never truly leaves.~Unknown

​Parenthood

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ~Orlando Aloysius Battista

Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.~Unknown

To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.~Chinese Proverb

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.~Henry Ward Beecher

The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.~Unknown

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.~Bill Ayers

There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.~Anne Lamott

​Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.~James Baldwin

​If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.~Brian Tracy

​It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.~Frederick Douglass

​Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.~Barbara Kingsolver

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. ~Mayim Bialik

Encourage & support your kids because “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.~Lady Bird Johnson

​Motherhood

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.~Agatha Christie

But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.~Mitch Albom

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.~Gail Tsukiyama

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.~Jodi Picoult

Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.~Donna Ball

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you never knew existed.~Linda Wooten

​A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

​The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.~Henry Ward Beecher

​My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.~Pablo Picasso

​When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.’~Ian Falconer

​Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.~Unknown

​The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.~Rajneesh

​A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.~Victor Hugo

​A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.~Washington Irving

​The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.~William Ross Wallace

​Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.~Robert Browning

​Fatherhood

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.~Anonymous

​I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.~Umberto Eco

​He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.~Clarence Budington Kelland

​The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.~Angelo Patri

​The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.~Jean Paul Richter

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

~Author Unknown

​Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.~Pam Brown

​A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.~Unknown

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.

~Jim Valvano

​Siblings

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.~Robert Brault

​Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.~Vietnamese Proverb

​There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.~Terri Guillemets

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

~Jean Baptiste Legouve

​I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.~Maya Angelou

​Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.~Susan Scarf Merrell

​A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.~Marian Sandmaier

​Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way.~Pamela Dugdale

​A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double.~Toni Morrison

​Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.~Author Unknown

​In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.~Author Unknown

​To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.~Clara Ortega 

​Newborn and Babies

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.~Martin Fraquhar Tupper

​A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.~Eda J. Le Shan

​A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.~Anonymous

​Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.~Unknown

​Birth is the sudden opening of a window through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.~William MacNeile Dixon

​Babies are such a nice way to start people.~Don Herrold

​From the moment they placed you in our arms, you snuggled right into our hearts.~Unknown

​Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.~Charles Osgood

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other, the tranquil sky reflected on the face of the mother nursing her child.~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

​A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.~Barbara Christine Seifert

​Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.~Mandy Harrison

​Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.~George Bernard Shaw

​Little Kids

I love these little people and it is no slight thing that they, who are so fresh from God, love us.~Charles Dickens

​I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.~Liz Armbruster

​Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.~Neil Postman

​Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.~Rabindranath Tagore

​A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.~Bill Vaughan

Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.

~Matthew L. Jacobson.

​The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.~Jim Trelease

​While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.~Angela Schwindt

​Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings.~Dr. SunWolf

​I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.~Eleanor Roosevelt

​The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.~Joe Houldsworth

​There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.~Walt Streightiff

​Older Kids

A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

​We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.~Stacia Tauscher

​Daughters

A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.~Barbara Cage

​Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.~Alan Beck

​Princesses wear crowns to remind them that they are smart and beautiful because some days it’s easy to forget.~Unknown

​She will fill your lives with sunshine and your hearts with love.~Unknown

​What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.~Helen Claes

​Little girls dance their way into your heart, Whirling on the tips of angel wings, Scattering gold dust and kisses in our paths.~Unknown

There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.~John Gregory Brown

​Sons

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons.  And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

​Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.~Author Unknown

​When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.~The Talmud

​We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.~Gloria Steinem

​Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.~Epictetus

​Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.~Terri Guillemets

​Boys are beyond the range of anyone’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.~James Thurber

​Adopted Kids / Non-biological Relationships

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.​~Oprah Winfrey

​Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.~Robert A. Heinlein

​The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.~Richard Bach

​We must take care of our families wherever we find them.~Elizabeth Gilbert

​Family Gatherings

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.~Robert Brault

​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

​A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.~George Moore

​Humourous

Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts.~Author unknown

​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

​A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.~Ogden Nash

​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

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

​There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.~Jerry Seinfeld

​Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.~Ray Romano

​No matter how calmly you try to referee,​ parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.~Bill Cosby

​Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.~John Wilmot

​Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.~Phyllis Diller

​Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.~Jerry Seinfeld

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.~Erma Bombeck

We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.~Phyllis Diller