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

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

John Paul II

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Confucius

14.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

15.

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

16.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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.

25.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

27.

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

Swindoll, Charles

28.

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

29.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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.

31.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

32.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lardner, Ring

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Cook, Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

46.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

47.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

49.

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

Bach, Richard

50.

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