Motivational Quotes

Family

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

- Janeway, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Family

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Ade, George

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

John Paul II

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

11.

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

12.

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

Bach, Richard

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

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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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

16.

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

17.

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

Iphicrates

18.

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

19.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

27.

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

Burroughs, William S.

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

31.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

Swindoll, Charles

38.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

Graves, Clarissa

41.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

42.

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

43.

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

Delille, Jacques

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

Sontag, Susan

50.

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