Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Buddha

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

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

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

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Benson, Stella

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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

Confucius

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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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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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