Motivational Quotes

Family

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Family

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Lamb, Charles

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

Ade, George

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

Haley, Alex

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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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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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Buddha

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Iphicrates

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Adler, Felix

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

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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