Motivational Quotes

Family

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.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cook, Joseph

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

18.

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

Bach, Richard

19.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Sontag, Susan

24.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

27.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

29.

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

30.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Benson, Stella

35.

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

Leo Tolstoy

36.

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

37.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

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

39.

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

Anna Quindlen

40.

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

Johnson, Paul

41.

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

42.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

47.

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

Lardner, Ring

48.

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

49.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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.