Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

10.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

12.

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

Benson, Stella

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

19.

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

Leo Tolstoy

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Sontag, Susan

23.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

25.

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

Ade, George

26.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

27.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

41.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lardner, Ring

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

49.

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

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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.