Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

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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 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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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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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haley, Alex

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Twain, Mark

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Buddha

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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