Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Baker, Anita

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

20.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Iphicrates

28.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

Burroughs, William S.

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Anna Quindlen

33.

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

34.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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

Delille, Jacques

36.

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

37.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Johnson, Paul

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

Bach, Richard

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

48.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

49.

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.

50.

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

Pritchett, V. S.