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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

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

Delille, Jacques

15.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

29.

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

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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

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

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Ade, George

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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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Bach, Richard

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

Adler, Felix

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Buddha