Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Proverb, Chinese

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Twain, Mark

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

10.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Delille, Jacques

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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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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Confucius

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

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

Adler, Felix

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Iphicrates

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

Schulz, Charles M.