Motivational Quotes

Family

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

- Pere, Legouve

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Iphicrates

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Ade, George

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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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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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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 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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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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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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian