Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Swindoll, Charles

Best Quotes about Family

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Buddha

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

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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.

Jane Howard

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

23.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Iphicrates

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

31.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

34.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cook, Joseph

36.

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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

John Paul II

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Baker, Anita