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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lardner, Ring

28.

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

Baker, Anita

30.

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

Confucius

32.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

35.

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

36.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

40.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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.

Jane Howard

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

48.

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

Iphicrates

49.

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.

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

Twain, Mark