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 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.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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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.

Howard, Jane

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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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Adler, Felix

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

Johnson, Paul

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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 small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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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.

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Leo Tolstoy

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ann Radcliffe