Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Johnson, Paul

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Erica Eisdorfer

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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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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

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

Adler, Felix

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

17.

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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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

19.

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

Baker, Anita

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Benson, Stella

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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

24.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

25.

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

Lardner, Ring

26.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

27.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

28.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Delille, Jacques

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Iphicrates

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

38.

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

39.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

40.

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

Confucius

41.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Haley, Alex

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.