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

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

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

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

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

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

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Twain, Mark

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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.

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

Baker, Anita

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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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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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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.

Howard, Jane

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

48.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone