Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Stark, Freya

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Benson, Stella

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Haley, Alex

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Iphicrates

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

Buddha

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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

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

Lardner, Ring

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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.

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

Johnson, Paul

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I would rather start a family than finish one.