Motivational Quotes

Family

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Family

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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.

Jane Howard

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.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Baker, Anita

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

16.

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

17.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

18.

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.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Leo Tolstoy

21.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

22.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

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.

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

Iphicrates

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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.

28.

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

Benson, Stella

30.

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

31.

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Adler, Felix

33.

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

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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

Swindoll, Charles

36.

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

Ade, George

37.

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

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

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

45.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

47.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

48.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

49.

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

50.

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