Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Benson, Stella

11.

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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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

13.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

14.

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

17.

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

18.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

22.

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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

25.

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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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

27.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

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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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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lardner, Ring

33.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

35.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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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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

39.

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

Adler, Felix

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

Erica Eisdorfer

41.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

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

Cook, Joseph

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Bach, Richard

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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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius