Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Baker, Anita

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

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

John Paul II

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

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Confucius

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

Burroughs, William S.

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buddha

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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

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Haley, Alex

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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

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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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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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.

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Chinese