Motivational Quotes

Family

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Family

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

Cook, Joseph

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Haley, Alex

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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.

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Confucius

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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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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

31.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

32.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Baker, Anita

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.