Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Benson, Stella

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Delille, Jacques

14.

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

Ade, George

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Iphicrates

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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

25.

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

Haley, Alex

26.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

28.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Lardner, Ring

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

40.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

John Paul II

44.

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

Cook, Joseph

45.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

46.

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

49.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

50.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya