Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Cook, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Stella

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

10.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

13.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

17.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

20.

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

Bach, Richard

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

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.

24.

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

Graves, Clarissa

25.

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

Anna Quindlen

26.

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

27.

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

Johnson, Paul

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Leo Tolstoy

36.

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.

37.

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

Cook, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Iphicrates

41.

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

42.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

John Paul II

49.

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

50.

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

Baker, Anita