Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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

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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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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

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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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