Motivational Quotes

Family

None but a mule denies his family.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Family

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Bach, Richard

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Iphicrates

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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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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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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

19.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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 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

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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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No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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 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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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

28.

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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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