Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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.

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

17.

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

Delille, Jacques

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Adler, Felix

23.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

24.

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

Lardner, Ring

25.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

26.

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

Iphicrates

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

29.

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

Cook, Joseph

30.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

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

32.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

33.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

34.

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Confucius

38.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Baker, Anita

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Benson, Stella

46.

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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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