Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Stark, Freya

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

11.

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

Adler, Felix

12.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

17.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

18.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

19.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Leo Tolstoy

26.

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

Baker, Anita

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

35.

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.

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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

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Iphicrates

41.

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

Ade, George

42.

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

43.

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 Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

45.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

47.

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

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

Confucius

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese