Motivational Quotes

Family

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Family

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Iphicrates

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

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

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.

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

10.

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

Cook, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

15.

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

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.

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

18.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Anna Quindlen

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Johnson, Paul

27.

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

Confucius

28.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

29.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

30.

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.

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.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

Swindoll, Charles

34.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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

Buddha

36.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

41.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

46.

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

Delille, Jacques

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.