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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

Benson, Stella

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

Confucius

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Confucius

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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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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

31.

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Buddha

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Chinese

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