Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Haley, Alex

Best Quotes about Family

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lardner, Ring

12.

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

13.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

Delille, Jacques

21.

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.

22.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Paul

30.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Graves, Clarissa

34.

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Confucius

36.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

39.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Ade, George

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

46.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

47.

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

48.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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