Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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.

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

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Iphicrates

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

10.

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

Baker, Anita

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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.

13.

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

Lardner, Ring

14.

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

Adler, Felix

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Ade, George

17.

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

Johnson, Paul

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Haley, Alex

21.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Swindoll, Charles

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

39.

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

Stark, Freya

40.

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.

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

42.

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

Sontag, Susan

43.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

46.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Ann Radcliffe

48.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

49.

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

50.

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