Motivational Quotes

Family

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iphicrates

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

Cook, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

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

Adler, Felix

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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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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

21.

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

Benson, Stella

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

Leo Tolstoy

28.

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

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

31.

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

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

Confucius

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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

34.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

36.

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 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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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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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.

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Graves, Clarissa

42.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

44.

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

45.

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

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

Ade, George

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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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Delille, Jacques