Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Buddha

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, Chinese

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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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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 about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Iphicrates

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

Bach, Richard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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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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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

38.

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.

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

43.

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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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

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian