Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Buddha

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

11.

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

12.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

13.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

Jane Howard

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Leo Tolstoy

20.

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Baker, Anita

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

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

Confucius

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

33.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

34.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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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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 nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

44.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

46.

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Benson, Stella