Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Luce, Clare Boothe

Best Quotes about Family

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

Sontag, Susan

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

Leo Tolstoy

11.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Swindoll, Charles

17.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Adler, Felix

19.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

21.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haley, Alex

25.

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

Baker, Anita

26.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

27.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Confucius

29.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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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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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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

42.

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

Graves, Clarissa

43.

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

44.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

45.

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

Johnson, Paul

46.

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

John Paul II

49.

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

50.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English