Looking for quotes about blended families? We have rounded up the best collection of blended family quotes, sayings, messages, captions, status, (with images and pictures) to share with your family and strengthen your bond.
BLENDED FAMILY QUOTES
- “Love is…You, Me, Them, Us.”
- “Family is family.” – Linda Linney
- “Our family is beautifully blended together.”
- “Our family is just the right mix of chaos and love!”
- “We aren’t ‘step’. We aren’t ‘half’. We’re just family!”
- “Family is what happens when two people fall in love!”
- “I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you.”
- “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
- “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
- “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” – Guy Lafleur
- “Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
- “A family portrait is only complete with love to fill its frame.” – Wes Fesler
- “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
- “A step-sibling is one giant step in growing in life, together.” – Sally Painter
- “Being a stepmom means they grew inside of my heart instead of my tummy.”
- “Some families are created in different ways, but are still in every way a family.”
- “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
- “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
- “Families don’t have to match…you don’t have to look like someone to love them.”
- “The memories we make with our family is everything.” – Candace Cameron Bure
- “All families are different and unique, but they all have one thing in common – love.”
- “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
- “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt
- “Don’t hate me because I’m their stepmom….appreciate that I love them and good to them.”
- “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush
- “The hardest thing about being a blended family is knowing when to fight and when to let it go.”
- “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
- “When you look at your life, the greatest happiness’s are family happinesses.” – Joyce Brothers
- “The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” – Jane Blaustone
- “Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child.” – Tony Gaskins
- “Remember you are not managing an inconvenience. You are raising a human being.” – Kittie Frantz
- “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
- “When you tell a child you hate their other parent, you are telling them you hate half of who they are.”
- “I’m very fortunate because we’re committed to co-parenting our children together.” – Elle Macpherson
- “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca
- “Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy
- “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
- “Family is family, whether it’s one you start out with, the one you end up with, or the family you gain along the way.”
- “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
- “Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child’s life experience.” – Azriel Johnson
- “Blended families woven together by choice strengthened together by love tested by everything and each uniquely ours.”
- “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
- “Each child is an adventure into a better life-an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
- “There will always be steps you can take toward unity in your blended family, and you will make it – one step at a time!” – Donna Houpe
- “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of the parents.” – Jane D. Hull
- “By the grace of God, every blended family can become an opportunity to see His redeeming and restoring love at work.” – Debbie Alsdorf
- “Lookin’ back, all I can say about all the things he did for me is, I hope I’m at least half the dad that he didn’t have to be.” – Brad Paisley
- “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.”
- “The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
- “Co-parenting. It’s not a competition between two homes. It’s a collaboration of parents doing what is best for the kids.” – Heather Hetchler
- “Make a positive difference in your children’s lives. Act and speak about your co-parent with respect and integrity.” – Allison Pescosolido
- “A family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life, no matter what.” – Anon
- “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
- “Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.” – Valerie Bertinelli
- “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Live one day at a time (or one moment if you have to). Blend little by little and celebrate even the smallest breakthrough.” – Andi Parker-Kimbrough
- “Family: People in your life who are close to your heart, who bring out the best in you, who laugh, celebrate, and dream with you, who love you infinitely.”
- “When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, do right by your step-child instead. You’ll never fail with their best interest at heart.” – Jessica James
- “Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let’s raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.” – L.R. Knost
- “I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there’s nothing out there in fiction about blended families.” – Jeff Probst
- “What I’m doing isn’t about me, it’s about the two little kids that my husband brought into my life. It is about them and making sure that they feel safe, happy, and supported.” – Rose Quinn
- “Blended families are a beautiful mix of diverse people who each serve an important role in our lives. At times, it can be challenging to appreciate everyone’s unique beauty.”- Deana Kellar La Rosa
- “There is no such thing as a broken family. Family is family and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.” – C. Joybell C.
- “The secret to blending families is… There is no secret. It’s scary and awesome and ragged and perfect and always changing. Love and laugh hard, try again tomorrow, but that’s life advice, right?” – Mir Kamin
- “Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them and hold them tightly. But most of all… tell them you love them everyday.”
- “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
- “Sibling relationships outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.” – Erica E. Goode
- “You have to take things slowly. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean that you’re going to automatically love their children. All relationships take time to grow and develop. Be willing to give everyone the time and space that they need. It will come.”
- “It’s about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best that you can. I’m a mom and have two husbands – an ex husband and a next husband. It’s a blended family and it’s very hard to keep things together, but we’re happy and we live in love.”
- “Think of it as an important business project; you don’t always love the person that you’re working with, but you work together to get the project done. Co-parents need to adopt this same business model when co-parenting their children.” – Kela Price
- “The truth is that the way our ex’s, our partner’s ex’s or even our step-kids see us isn’t always about us – it’s about them and their struggles, insecurities, fears or limitations. You don’t have to allow their judgment to become your truth.” – Danielle Koepke
- “Who cares if another woman or man loves your child, plays with your child, or builds a healthy relationship with your child – either way your child is benefiting. Did you read that? YOUR CHILD IS BENEFITING. That’s whats important – nothing else.” – Jessica James
- “Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.” – Morris Gleitzman
- “Becoming a blended family means mixing, mingling, scrambling, and sometimes muddling our way through delicate family issues, complicated relationships, and individual differences, hurts, and fears. But through it all, we are learning to love like a family.” – Tom Frydenger
- “One of the most important lessons our children have learned from our divorces is that some things in life can come to an end, but that’s OK because something new is manifested. In our case, it’s a blended family that has respect, love, trust, authenticity and a sense of fun.” – Jennifer Kessler
- “Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they need it most. It means having each other’s backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. It means never giving up on each other!” – Dave Willis
- “Stop thinking that things are going to be perfect. It’s not going to happen. The kids will not get along all the time, the house will not always be quiet, you will not always hear ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ It isn’t realistic. What is realistic is taking stock of how incredibly lucky you are to have more children to love and to guide.” – Kellee Mulkerin-Ford
- “Recipe for a perfectly blended family: 1. Combine 2 families and traditions. 2. Enfold in love. 3. Stir in a heaping measure of crazy schedules. 4. Add feelings and strain. 5. Chill with patience and respect. 6. Mix in honest communication. 7. Pour on fun and new experiences. 8. Whip together until “his” and “hers” become “ours”. Yield: One new, strong blended family!”
- “Things I’ve learned: To live life with no regrets for my choices, and to learn from the mistakes I’ve made. To wake up with a smile on my face, and sleep with a prayer of thanks on my lips. To cherish my family, and say “I love you” often. To laugh until my belly hurts, with friends who’ll still be there when I cry. To discover my passions and focus my life on those things. To have faith that this good life is only the precursor.”
- “A Second Dad: Even though you’re not my dad I know that you’ll be there with the little things you do you let me know you care. You’re always there to help, whatever the need may be you’ve given of yourself…and so unselfishly. Now you’re becoming the dad that I have never known I’m drawn to you more every day for the kindness you have shown. I just want to thank you and let you know I care a second dad as great as you is something very rare.”