Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Family

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Schulz, Charles M.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

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

Ade, George

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Stark, Freya

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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

15.

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

Baker, Anita

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

Burroughs, William S.

32.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

33.

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

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Delille, Jacques

36.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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.