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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Ade, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

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

Confucius

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Delille, Jacques

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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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Buddha

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Confucius

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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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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

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.