Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Sontag, Susan

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Adler, Felix

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.

10.

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

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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

12.

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

Lardner, Ring

13.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

15.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

16.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Confucius

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Graves, Clarissa

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

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.

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

Ade, George

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Haley, Alex

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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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.

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

45.

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

Baker, Anita

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

Stark, Freya

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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

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Crisp, Quentin