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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Ade, George

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Adler, Felix

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Paul

13.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

14.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

15.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

16.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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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

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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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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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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Cook, Joseph

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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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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buddha

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

Benson, Stella

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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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

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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.