Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Graves, Clarissa

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leo Tolstoy

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Jewish

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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Iphicrates

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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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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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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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