Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

John Paul II

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

Buddha

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

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

Sontag, Susan

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Schulz, Charles M.

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

15.

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

16.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

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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

18.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

19.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

21.

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

Benson, Stella

22.

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

Delille, Jacques

23.

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

Baker, Anita

24.

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 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

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

Confucius

28.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

30.

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

31.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

32.

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

33.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

35.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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