Motivational Quotes

Family

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

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.

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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

18.

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

Benson, Stella

19.

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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

25.

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

Sontag, Susan

26.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Paul

34.

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

John Paul II

35.

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

Adler, Felix

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

38.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

43.

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

44.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

49.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann