Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lardner, Ring

Best Quotes about Family

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Iphicrates

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

Confucius

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

Ann Radcliffe

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Anna Quindlen

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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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 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

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

Bach, Richard

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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

40.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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 small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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