Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ade, George

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Johnson, Paul

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Leo Tolstoy

10.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Iphicrates

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

Buddha

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Erica Eisdorfer

30.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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.

33.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

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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

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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 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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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.

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

Delille, Jacques

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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.

42.

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

Confucius

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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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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Confucius

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

Burroughs, William S.