Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Family

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

Confucius

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

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Buddha

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

13.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

14.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

15.

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

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

18.

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

John Paul II

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

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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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

25.

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

26.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

27.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

28.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Delille, Jacques

39.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

40.

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

Lardner, Ring

41.

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

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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

43.

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

44.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

46.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Bach, Richard

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese