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.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ziglar, Zig

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

17.

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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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

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

Sontag, Susan

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

25.

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

Delille, Jacques

26.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

27.

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.

Jane Howard

28.

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

29.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

30.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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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

33.

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

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

35.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

36.

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

Haley, Alex

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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

John Paul II

42.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

49.

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

50.

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