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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ann Radcliffe

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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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

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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

14.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Cook, Ted

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leo Tolstoy

24.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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.

26.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Confucius

28.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

29.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

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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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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

33.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

34.

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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

36.

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

Anna Quindlen

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

John Paul II

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Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Ade, George

40.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

43.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Stark, Freya

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Sontag, Susan