Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Adler, Felix

Best Quotes about Family

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Stark, Freya

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

Cook, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Mead, Margaret

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

Schulz, Charles M.

11.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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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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

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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Adler, Felix

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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

33.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Ade, George

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Paul

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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.

Howard, Jane

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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

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Benson, Stella

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

Buddha