Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Johnson, Paul

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Confucius

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

16.

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

17.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

18.

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

19.

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

Benson, Stella

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

John Paul II

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Adler, Felix

25.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Ade, George

33.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

34.

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

35.

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

Sontag, Susan

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

Stark, Freya

41.

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

Baker, Anita

42.

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

43.

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

Ann Radcliffe

44.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

45.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

48.

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

Iphicrates

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

50.

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