Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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 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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Delille, Jacques

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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.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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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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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Anna Quindlen

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Confucius

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

Haley, Alex

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.