Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Iphicrates

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

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

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.

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

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

10.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

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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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

16.

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.

17.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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

20.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

27.

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

28.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

32.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

34.

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

John Paul II

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Bach, Richard

37.

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

38.

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

Swindoll, Charles

39.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

41.

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

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

Delille, Jacques

43.

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

44.

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

45.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

50.

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

Cook, Joseph