Motivational Quotes

Family

I would rather start a family than finish one.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Iphicrates

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

10.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

11.

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

12.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

16.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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.

22.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

26.

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

27.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Confucius

33.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

Leo Tolstoy

35.

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

36.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

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

38.

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

Delille, Jacques

39.

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

Graves, Clarissa

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Stark, Freya