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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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

Bach, Richard

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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

Stark, Freya

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Ade, George

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Johnson, Paul