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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

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

Buddha

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

Bach, Richard

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

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

11.

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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

13.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

14.

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

Anna Quindlen

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Lardner, Ring

18.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

21.

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

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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

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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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

33.

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

Sontag, Susan

34.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

35.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

38.

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

John Paul II

39.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

45.

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

Delille, Jacques

46.

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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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Confucius

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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.