Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- John Paul II

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Cook, Joseph

14.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

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

Delille, Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Benson, Stella

20.

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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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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

25.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

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

27.

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

Anna Quindlen

28.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Swindoll, Charles

30.

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

31.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

32.

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

Graves, Clarissa

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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.

36.

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

Adler, Felix

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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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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

43.

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

Bach, Richard

44.

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

45.

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

Iphicrates

46.

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

47.

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