Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

John Paul II

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

10.

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

Sontag, Susan

11.

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

12.

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

Burroughs, William S.

13.

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

14.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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.

23.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Anna Quindlen

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

30.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

33.

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

Delille, Jacques

34.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

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

Iphicrates

38.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

39.

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

Benson, Stella

40.

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

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

43.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lardner, Ring

47.

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

48.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

49.

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

50.

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan