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

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

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

Iphicrates

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.

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

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Sontag, Susan

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

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

15.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Haley, Alex

20.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

21.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

27.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

28.

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

Leo Tolstoy

29.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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

Buddha

31.

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

Delille, Jacques

33.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

34.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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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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

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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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

45.

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

Swindoll, Charles

46.

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

47.

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

Cook, Joseph

48.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

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

Benson, Stella

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.