Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Buddha

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

10.

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

11.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

12.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

15.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Sontag, Susan

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Swindoll, Charles

22.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

23.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

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.

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

36.

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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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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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

39.

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

Adler, Felix

40.

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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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.

Howard, Jane

43.

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

Ade, George

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

49.

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

Schulz, Charles M.