Motivational Quotes
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.
Best Quotes about Family
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Ziglar, Zig
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
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
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Marquis, Don
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Benson, Stella
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Delille, Jacques
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
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Johnson, Paul
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
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
Ade, George
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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
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.
Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.
Erica Eisdorfer
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
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius
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.
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
Cook, Joseph
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
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
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Groening, Matt
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Proverb, Jewish
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Jefferson, Thomas
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Aristotle
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
Johnson, Samuel
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Twain, Mark
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Oakley, Ann
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
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
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
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
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
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
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Swindoll, Charles
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
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
John Paul II
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Anna Quindlen
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Mencken, H. L.
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
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Proverb, Chinese
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
Graves, Clarissa
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Lincoln, Abraham
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
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
None but a mule denies his family.
Proverb, Arabian
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