Christmas is a time to slow down, reflect, recharge and reconnect with what matters the most to us.

It’s a time when families all over the world gather in the warmth and keep the cold and darkness of winter at bay. Sharing laughter, delicious meals and stories and memories.

And to help you make this Christmas a joyful one I’d like to share 101 of the most heartwarming, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes for family.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this year’s holiday an extra special and happy one for yourself and your family.

Heartwarming Christmas Quotes and Wishes for Family

“When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas

“Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
– Augusta E. Rundel

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
– Andy Rooney

“Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”
– Lenora Mattingly Weber

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills

“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family.”
– Roberta Flack

“At Christmas, families come together like branches on a tree.”
– Karen Kostyla

“Christmas is a time when families unite, love multiplies and magic fills the air.”
– Caroline Kennedy

“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
– Wanda Hope Carter

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes

“No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given – when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
– Joan Winmill Brown

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
– Charlie Brown (from the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas)

“Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark

“From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.”
– Emily Matthews

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.”
– Bob Hope

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”
– Deborah Whipp

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
– Clarence (from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life)

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”
– Tom Baker

“Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday, said Pooh. That’s my favorite kind, said Piglet.”
– A. A. Milne

Inspirational Christmas Quotes and Sayings for Family

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa

“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding more time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”
– Toni Sorenson

“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.”
– David Cameron

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
– Ruth Carter Stapleton

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis

“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks

“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.”
– Eric Sevareid

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
– W.C. Jones

“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.”
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

“If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.”
– Faith Hill

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
– Janice Maeditere

“Christmas Day is in our grasp, as long as we have hands to clasp! Christmas Day will always be, just as long, as we have we! Welcome Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
– W. T. Ellis

“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans

Funny Christmas Quotes for Family and Loved Ones

“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence

“It’s that special time of year when your whole family gathers together in one place to look at their cellphones.”
– Jimmy Kimmel

“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”
– Dave Barry

“I hate the radio this time of year because they play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.”
– Bridger Winegar

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul

“Adults can take a simple holiday for children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.”
– Erma Bombeck

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
– Garrison Keillor

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.”
– Henny Youngman

“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
– Bob Phillips

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.”
– Dave Barry

“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Friends are the family you choose, especially when they help you hide the evidence of Christmas shopping.”
– Sally Thorne

Short Christmas Quotes for Family and Your Letterboard

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”
– Taylor Caldwell

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies

“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”
– Gladys Taber

“The best Christmas gift is to realize how much you already have.”
– Marie Kondo

“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young

“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”
– Ann Garnett Schultz

“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
– Charlotte Carpenter

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller

“No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas.”
– Dolly Parton

Cute Christmas Quotes for Family and a Happy Holiday

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal and that every path may lead to peace.”
– Agnes M. Pharo

“Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime.”
– Zooey Deschanel

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
– Joan Mills

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
– Bob Hope

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
– Thomas Tusser

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry-making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
– J. C. Penney

“The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.”
– Max Lucado

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Christmas is a time to take stock of the good things in life.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season to fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
– Julie Hebert

“The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller

“We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.”
– Maya Angelou

“May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”
– Washington Irving

“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is a bridge of hope that connects yesterday’s memories with tomorrow’s dreams.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill.”
– Martha Stewart

Want more uplifting and positive inspiration for your holidays? Then have a look at these short Christmas quotes, this one with inspirational Christmas quotes and also this post that’s filled with Christmas quotes for cards and your letterboard.

It’s Thanksgiving (or it’s coming soon, depending on when you’re reading this).

A time of the year for families to come together. To laugh, share memories and food and let gratitude and love shine in the darkness of November.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most meaningful, funny and loving Thanksgiving quotes for family.

I hope you’ll find something here to help you truly express how you feel at the dinner table, in a text or on a card or maybe via social media posts on Instagram.

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Help You Express Your Love

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.”
– Donna Hedges

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

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

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“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

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

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
– from the movie Lilo & Stitch

“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

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created, strengthened and maintained.”
– Winston Churchill

“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

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

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

“In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.”
– Marcus Samuelsson

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

Short Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings for Family

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.”
– Amy Collette

“The most thankful person is the most fully human.”
– John Henry Jowett

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
– Unknown

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“Reflect upon your present blessings.”
– Charles Dickens

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
– Todd Stocker

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
– Native American Proverb

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia Barr

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Lighten the Mood

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
– Craig Ferguson

“It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.”
– Timothy Burke

“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”
– Johnny Carson

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”
– Erma Bombeck

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”
– Rita Rudner

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?’”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“Family gathering: A time when relatives you haven’t seen all year magically appear just in time to critique your life choices.”
– Jen Lancaster

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

“So what do we do? We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.”
– Heather Brewer

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

Meaningful Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Parents

“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

“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”
– Michael Jordan

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
– Melody Beattie

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
– Neal A. Maxwell

“My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
– Liza Minnelli

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama

“Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions.”
– Reed Markham

“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
– Meister Eckhart

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
– Dalai Lama

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Kids

“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
– Charlie Brown

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
– A.A. Milne

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

“There is always something to be thankful for.”
– Charles Dickens

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
– Charlie Brown

“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”
– Willard Scott

“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
– Roy Bennett

“Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.”
– Antonia Montoya

“It’s funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
– Germany Kent

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

Want more positive inspiration for your Thanksgiving? Then have a look at these short Thanksgiving quotes, the Thanksgiving quotes for gratitude at work here and also this one with funny Thanksgiving quotes for a less stressful holiday.