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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Adler, Felix

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Gretry, Marmontel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ade, George

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

16.

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

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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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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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Iphicrates

22.

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

Delille, Jacques

23.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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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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

28.

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

Swindoll, Charles

29.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Mead, Margaret

30.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Bach, Richard

36.

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

Cook, Joseph

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Benson, Stella

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

43.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

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

45.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

46.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Erica Eisdorfer

49.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.