Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Family

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

Haley, Alex

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

10.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

16.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

18.

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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Leo Tolstoy

28.

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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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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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

31.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Bach, Richard

34.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Iphicrates

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Adler, Felix

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

49.

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

Lardner, Ring

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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