Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Confucius

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Benson, Stella

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

Stark, Freya

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

10.

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

Haley, Alex

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Burroughs, William S.

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cook, Joseph

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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

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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.

Howard, Jane

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Ann Radcliffe