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

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Graves, Clarissa

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

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

18.

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

Haley, Alex

19.

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

Lardner, Ring

20.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

23.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

King, Florence

24.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Stark, Freya

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Johnson, Paul

35.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

36.

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

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

39.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

40.

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

41.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

42.

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

43.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

44.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Burroughs, William S.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Erica Eisdorfer