Motivational Quotes

Family

I would rather start a family than finish one.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Graves, Clarissa

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.

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

Baker, Anita

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Stella

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Buddha

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Adler, Felix

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish