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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

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

Baker, Anita

10.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Paul

13.

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

Anna Quindlen

14.

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

15.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

16.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

John Paul II

24.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

25.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

31.

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

Bach, Richard

32.

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

Ade, George

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

Leo Tolstoy

37.

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

Iphicrates

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Benson, Stella

41.

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

42.

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

Burroughs, William S.

43.

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.

44.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

45.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

46.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

50.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring