Family quotes for grown-up families: funny lines and time together

Good family quotes for grown-up families are short, warm and a little funny. The lines below are for the big and loud families, the ones who mostly talk in a group chat now and the ones who still turn up for a Saturday together. Take the part that fits your family and change any word you like.

An example: the Brennans call it Leaf Day. On the first Saturday of November, everyone comes back to the house where Maeve, 34, and her brother Cal, 37, grew up, and they rake the yard together. It was their father's idea, back when the maple tree was half its size. Their mother, Nora, 66, works the fastest. By noon she had built a pile of leaves nearly as tall as she is. Their father, Des, 68, had spent the morning leaning on his rake and calling it supervising. He walked up to the pile, looked it over and said, "For quality control." Then he fell straight backward into it with his arms out. Nora laughed until she had to lean on her rake, and Maeve and Cal were no help at all. That night Maeve wrote in the family chat: "Forty years of raking and we still can't finish one pile."

Funny family quotes about the big, loud family

Big families are funny without trying. These lines say so with love.

• "In our family, nobody finishes a sentence, and somehow everyone knows how it ends."
• "We're not loud. There are just a lot of us, and we all have opinions."
• "Every family has a funny one. In ours, everyone thinks it's them."
• "We don't keep secrets in this family. We just tell them to one person at a time."
• "Being a grown-up means your parents now ask you how to fix the remote."
• "My family can't agree on a time, but we all agree someone else made us late."
• "We've been arguing about who's the favorite for thirty years. It's the dog."

Family group chat quotes

Many grown families now live half their life in one chat. If yours still needs a name, try family group chat names.

• "Our family chat: 214 unread messages, and one of them matters."
• "Mom just learned the thumbs up. There's no going back."
• "Dad ends every message with a full stop, and the whole chat wonders what we did."
• "Nobody in this family calls anymore. We send each other photos of the same sky."
• "Family chat rule: the person who asks the question never reads the answers."
• "We live in four cities and one group chat."

Quotes about time with family

Once everyone has their own life and their own address, time together gets harder to find. These are for the hours you do get.

• "The days we do nothing together are the ones I remember best."
• "Time with family goes fast, even when it's only a Saturday in the yard."
• "We're all busy now. That's why the hours we share count double."
• "Spend the time while you have it. The calendar won't give it back."
• "Family time is just showing up, again and again, for years."
• "One afternoon with my people fixes a whole month."
• "The best part of growing up was finding out I still want to come home."

Family memories quotes

A family memory gets told so often that it turns into a small story with its own lines. These are for that.

• "We tell the same five stories every time, and they get better every year."
• "Our family doesn't keep memories in albums. We keep them in each other's heads, slightly wrong."
• "Some memories are only funny once everyone is in the room."
• "Ask three of us how it happened and you'll get three stories and one truth."
• "Making memories with you all is the one hobby I'll never quit."
• "One day these will be the good old days. Some days I can tell already."

Thankful for family quotes

These say thank you to the whole family at once. Short and plain usually lands best.

• "I didn't pick any of you, and I'd pick you all again."
• "Thank you for being the people I never have to explain myself to."
• "Whatever else changes, I'm grateful you're still the first people I call."
• "Lucky is having a family you'd want as friends."
• "Thank you for every time you showed up without asking why."

Short family quotes

Under six words each, for a post, a text or the top of a card.

• "Same people, bigger shoes."
• "Loud, loyal and mine."
• "Our people, our place."
• "Grown up, still in it together."
• "Many opinions, one family."
• "Always a seat for you."

Friends who are family

Some friends have been around so long that the family counts them in. A few lines for them:

• "Some people were born into my family. You just walked in and stayed."
• "Friends who turn up every time end up in the family photos."
• "You're not on the family tree, but you're in every story."
• "You came for one weekend ten years ago and never really left."

For the friend you call your sister, best friend sister quotes has many more. For the friend who is a brother in all but name, read brotherhood quotes.

Quotes for one person in the family

Sometimes you want words for one person, not the whole family. For a brother or sister, see quotes about siblings. Parents have their own pages in mom quotes and dad quotes. Grandparent quotes covers the oldest generation, and grandchildren quotes has lines for grown grandchildren. Cousin quotes is for the cousins you grew up with, in-law quotes for the people who joined by marriage and aunt quotes for the aunt who was always on your side.

Who keeps the family together, by type

In many families, one or two people do the quiet work that keeps everyone close. Who does it, and how, often follows personality type. Here are six of the 16 types:

• Ideator turns an ordinary chore into a family tradition, then is the first to break its rules.
• Inspector remembers every date in the family and sends the reminder a week early.
• Commander picks the day when the chat can't decide, and makes sure it happens.
• Dreamer notices who has gone quiet and calls them later, one to one.
• Guardian keeps the old house the way everyone remembers it, with a spare bed always made up.
• Encourager hands out the nicknames and gets the whole family laughing at itself.

Des is close to an Ideator. Leaf Day was his idea, and he has never once finished raking.

How each of you fits in the family

Every family has a planner, a joker and someone who keeps the peace, and type often explains who plays which part. Typeza sets your type next to a relative's and names the relationship type between you. That often explains why one relative is easy company and another takes more effort. Try the free family compatibility test and send your result to someone in your family.

Captions, mottos and old sayings

If you need words to go under a photo, family captions has short ones. Lines for a trip with the whole family are in travel quotes. A line your whole family lives by belongs in a family motto. For the old saying about blood and water, see blood is thicker than water. And if you're bringing everyone to one place, how to plan a family reunion walks you through it.

Questions people ask

What is a good quote about family?

One that sounds like your own family. "I didn't pick any of you, and I'd pick you all again" works for many grown-up families.

What is a funny family quote?

"We're not loud. There are just a lot of us, and we all have opinions." It fits many big families, and it teases without hurting anyone.

What is a good quote about spending time with family?

"The days we do nothing together are the ones I remember best." It says that the time itself matters more than any plan.

How do you say you're thankful for your family?

Say it plainly and name one real thing, like the call you can always make or the way they show up. "Thank you for every time you showed up without asking why" is a good start.

Written by Virko Kask, founder of Typeza
Written with the help of AI tools.