Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Johnson, Paul

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Haley, Alex

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Twain, Mark

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Stark, Freya

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

Buddha

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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