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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Anna Quindlen

13.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Stark, Freya

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Leo Tolstoy

25.

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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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

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

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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

29.

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

Graves, Clarissa

30.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Johnson, Paul

31.

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

33.

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

Cook, Joseph

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

35.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

37.

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

Ade, George

38.

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

Buddha

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

44.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

45.

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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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.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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