Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

10.

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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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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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

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

14.

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

John Paul II

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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

20.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Johnson, Paul

23.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

26.

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

Lardner, Ring

27.

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

Confucius

29.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Buddha

32.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

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

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

41.

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.

42.

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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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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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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

49.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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