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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Sontag, Susan

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

11.

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

12.

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

17.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

18.

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 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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No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buddha

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

Delille, Jacques

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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

34.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Swindoll, Charles

36.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

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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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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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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.