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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Leo Tolstoy

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Benson, Stella

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Bach, Richard

17.

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

Delille, Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Adler, Felix

20.

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

21.

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

Anna Quindlen

22.

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

23.

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

Graves, Clarissa

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

28.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Paul

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.

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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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

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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.

38.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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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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

42.

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

Lardner, Ring

43.

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

Burroughs, William S.

44.

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

Stark, Freya

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

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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

48.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

49.

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

John Paul II

50.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don