Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- O'connor, Sandra Day

Best Quotes about Family

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.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

10.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

Johnson, Paul

12.

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

13.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

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One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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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

20.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

21.

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.

22.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Swindoll, Charles

27.

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

28.

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

Ann Radcliffe

29.

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

Lardner, Ring

30.

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

31.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

34.

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

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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

43.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

45.

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

47.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

48.

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

Graves, Clarissa

50.

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