Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Confucius

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

10.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

16.

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

Bach, Richard

17.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

21.

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Cook, Ted

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Buddha

28.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

29.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Graves, Clarissa

33.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

34.

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

Benson, Stella

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Ade, George

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

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

43.

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

Swindoll, Charles

44.

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

45.

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

Adler, Felix

46.

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

Johnson, Paul

47.

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

Lardner, Ring

48.

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

49.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

50.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis