Motivational Quotes

Family

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Iphicrates

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Ade, George

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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