Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Baker, Anita

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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.

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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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

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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

Iphicrates

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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

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

41.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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

44.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Leo Tolstoy

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.