Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

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

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

Ade, George

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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Paul

20.

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.

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lardner, Ring

25.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Leo Tolstoy

28.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

29.

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

30.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

33.

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

Swindoll, Charles

34.

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

Sontag, Susan

35.

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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

38.

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

Adler, Felix

41.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

42.

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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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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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

45.

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

Haley, Alex

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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

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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

48.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

49.

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

Confucius

50.

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