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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

Schulz, Charles M.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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

Iphicrates

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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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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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

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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.

Jane Howard

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King, Florence

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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