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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Cook, Joseph

14.

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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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

16.

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

Sontag, Susan

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

19.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

20.

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

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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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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

23.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

24.

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

Benson, Stella

25.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Lardner, Ring

32.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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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

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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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

38.

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

39.

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

Iphicrates

40.

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

41.

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Adler, Felix

44.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

45.

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

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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

49.

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

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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