Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Buddha

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Erica Eisdorfer

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ade, George

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

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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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

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

19.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

20.

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

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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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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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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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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

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

Delille, Jacques

28.

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.

29.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

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

Leo Tolstoy

32.

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

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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

34.

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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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

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

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

Swindoll, Charles

39.

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

Cook, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Burroughs, William S.

43.

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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Aesop

45.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

46.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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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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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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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.