Motivational Quotes

Family

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

- Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Confucius

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

11.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

12.

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

13.

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

Stark, Freya

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

17.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Adler, Felix

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Ade, George

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

33.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

Johnson, Paul

35.

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

Anna Quindlen

36.

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

Cook, Joseph

37.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

John Paul II

42.

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

Burroughs, William S.

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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

50.

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