Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

13.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

14.

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

Bach, Richard

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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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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

19.

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

Cook, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

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

Confucius

24.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

25.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

27.

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

Swindoll, Charles

28.

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

John Paul II

29.

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

Ade, George

30.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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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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

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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.

35.

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

Leo Tolstoy

36.

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

Johnson, Paul

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Stark, Freya

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

43.

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

Delille, Jacques

44.

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

45.

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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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

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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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.