Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Benson, Stella

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

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

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

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.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Iphicrates

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

John Paul II

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Stark, Freya

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Buddha

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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Jeff Foxworthy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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