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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

Iphicrates

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

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Diane Ackerman

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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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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Bach, Richard

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

Adler, Felix

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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 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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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 minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

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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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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

Jane Howard

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Cook, Joseph

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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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