Motivational Quotes

Family

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Family

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Johnson, Paul

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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.

Frost, Robert

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

10.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

11.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan

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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

14.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Keats, John

15.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

King, Florence

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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

Diane Ackerman

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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

20.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

22.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

23.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

25.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

28.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

30.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Lamb, Charles

32.

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

33.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

34.

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

35.

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

36.

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

37.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Bach, Richard

38.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

41.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

43.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

45.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

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The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

49.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy