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

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Buddha

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

Twain, Mark

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

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

11.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

12.

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

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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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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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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haley, Alex

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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

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Bach, Richard

28.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

32.

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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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

34.

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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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

36.

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

Cook, Joseph

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Ade, George

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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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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.