Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Lardner, Ring

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Haley, Alex

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

Leo Tolstoy

18.

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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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

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

22.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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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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

25.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

26.

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

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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

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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

29.

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

30.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Johnson, Paul

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

34.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Iphicrates

38.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

39.

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

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

41.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

42.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

44.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

45.

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.

46.

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

Cook, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

Confucius

49.

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

Graves, Clarissa

50.

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