Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Buddha

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

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

John Paul II

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ade, George

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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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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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 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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Adler, Felix

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Benson, Stella

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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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Confucius

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Haley, Alex

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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