Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Ade, George

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

Anna Quindlen

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.

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

10.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

11.

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

Leo Tolstoy

12.

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

13.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

16.

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

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

21.

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

Sontag, Susan

22.

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

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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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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

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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

26.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

27.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

28.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

29.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

30.

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

Swindoll, Charles

31.

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

Haley, Alex

32.

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

Johnson, Paul

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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

35.

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

Graves, Clarissa

36.

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

Iphicrates

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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.

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

43.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

44.

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

45.

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

John Paul II

46.

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

Cook, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

49.

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

Baker, Anita

50.

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