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

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

Iphicrates

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

Buddha

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

Confucius

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

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

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

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

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.

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

10.

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

11.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

20.

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

Graves, Clarissa

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Benson, Stella

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

28.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

29.

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

30.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

33.

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

Delille, Jacques

34.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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

36.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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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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

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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.

Jane Howard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Adler, Felix

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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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