Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Benson, Stella

Best Quotes about Family

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Baker, Anita

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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.

13.

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

Swindoll, Charles

14.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

15.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

16.

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

Graves, Clarissa

17.

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

Benson, Stella

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Cook, Joseph

20.

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

Delille, Jacques

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Anna Quindlen

26.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

32.

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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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

34.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Iphicrates

36.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Adler, Felix

41.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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

John Paul II

45.

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

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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

48.

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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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.