Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Iphicrates

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Adler, Felix

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Confucius

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

Buddha

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Jewish

46.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Beecher, Henry Ward