Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Family

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Iphicrates

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Delille, Jacques

10.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

15.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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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

18.

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

Ade, George

19.

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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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.

21.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Confucius

25.

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

John Paul II

26.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Adler, Felix

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Cook, Joseph

36.

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

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

Confucius

38.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Haley, Alex

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Graves, Clarissa

44.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

49.

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 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