Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Graves, Clarissa

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Johnson, Paul

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

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

Benson, Stella

11.

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

12.

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

Confucius

13.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

20.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Leo Tolstoy

28.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

29.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

30.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Graves, Clarissa

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Cook, Joseph

37.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

Baker, Anita

40.

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

41.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Ade, George

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Haley, Alex

49.

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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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