Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Johnson, Paul

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Adler, Felix

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

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

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

10.

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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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

13.

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

Buddha

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

Ade, George

15.

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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

23.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

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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

26.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

27.

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.

28.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

29.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

33.

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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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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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Haley, Alex

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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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

46.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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.

Howard, Jane

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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