Motivational Quotes

Family

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.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Iphicrates

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

10.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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

Baker, Anita

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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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

17.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

25.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

26.

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

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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.

34.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

35.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

39.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Bach, Richard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

46.

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

Cook, Joseph

47.

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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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

49.

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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt