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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Baker, Anita

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

13.

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

Bach, Richard

14.

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

15.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

19.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

24.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

25.

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

Adler, Felix

26.

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

Ade, George

27.

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

Iphicrates

28.

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

Johnson, Paul

29.

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

Anna Quindlen

30.

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

31.

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

Lardner, Ring

32.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

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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

34.

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

35.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

38.

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

Stark, Freya

39.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

40.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

42.

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.

43.

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

Delille, Jacques

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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