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

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

Ade, George

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Jewish

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Confucius

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

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

Haley, Alex

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Paul

12.

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

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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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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

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

Benson, Stella

18.

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

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

22.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

24.

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

Anna Quindlen

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lardner, Ring

30.

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

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

34.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

36.

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.

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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

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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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.

Howard, Jane

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Leo Tolstoy

45.

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

Adler, Felix

46.

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

Ann Radcliffe

47.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

49.

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

Iphicrates

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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