Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Delille, Jacques

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.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Graves, Clarissa

13.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

14.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

15.

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

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

17.

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

Confucius

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Iphicrates

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Benson, Stella

23.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Haley, Alex

27.

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

28.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

29.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Ade, George

35.

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

Stark, Freya

36.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

37.

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

38.

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

Baker, Anita

39.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

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

Leo Tolstoy

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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.