Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Johnson, Paul

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

John Paul II

10.

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

11.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

12.

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

13.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

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

Sontag, Susan

15.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Iphicrates

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

22.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

23.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Haley, Alex

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

29.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

30.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

32.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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.

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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

Cook, Joseph

42.

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Buddha

44.

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

Confucius

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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

46.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

48.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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