Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

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

Ade, George

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lardner, Ring

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.

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

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

Benson, Stella

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

21.

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

Buddha

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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

24.

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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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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

33.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Cook, Joseph

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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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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

40.

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Delille, Jacques

42.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

45.

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

Adler, Felix

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