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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Cook, Joseph

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

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

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

Benson, Stella

10.

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

11.

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

Leo Tolstoy

12.

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

13.

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

Anna Quindlen

14.

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

John Paul II

15.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

17.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

21.

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

Johnson, Paul

22.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

23.

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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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

25.

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

Haley, Alex

26.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Stark, Freya

32.

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

Iphicrates

33.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

Lardner, Ring

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Ade, George

40.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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.

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

43.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

49.

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

Adler, Felix

50.

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

Pritchett, V. S.