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

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

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Lardner, Ring

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

Benson, Stella

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

13.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

Cook, Joseph

18.

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

19.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

21.

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

Baker, Anita

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

24.

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

John Paul II

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Bach, Richard

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

34.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

35.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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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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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Leo Tolstoy

44.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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