Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Burroughs, William S.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

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

10.

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

Johnson, Paul

11.

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

12.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

14.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

15.

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

Bach, Richard

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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

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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

18.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

19.

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

Delille, Jacques

20.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

28.

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

29.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Cook, Joseph

35.

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

Haley, Alex

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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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

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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 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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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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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

49.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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