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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

John Paul II

10.

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.

11.

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

Cook, Joseph

12.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

17.

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

Johnson, Paul

18.

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.

19.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

21.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

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

Anna Quindlen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Baker, Anita

27.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Burroughs, William S.

32.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

34.

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

Ade, George

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

37.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

38.

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

Stark, Freya

39.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

40.

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

41.

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

Iphicrates

42.

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

43.

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

Bach, Richard

44.

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

45.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

48.

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

Adler, Felix

49.

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

Haley, Alex

50.

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