Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Graves, Clarissa

Best Quotes about Family

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

Gretry, Marmontel

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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 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

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

Confucius

11.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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.

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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.

25.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

26.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

John Paul II

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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

48.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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