Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

12.

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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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Benson, Stella

17.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

21.

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

Anna Quindlen

22.

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

Burroughs, William S.

23.

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

24.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

26.

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

Stark, Freya

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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

29.

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

30.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

39.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

40.

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

41.

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

John Paul II

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Swindoll, Charles

45.

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

Confucius

46.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

47.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

48.

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

Haley, Alex

49.

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

Johnson, Paul

50.

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