Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Iphicrates

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Confucius

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Adler, Felix

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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Delille, Jacques

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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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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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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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 would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Buddha

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

Johnson, Paul

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

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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

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward