Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Family

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

12.

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

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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.

16.

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

John Paul II

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Delille, Jacques

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.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

23.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

24.

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.

25.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

26.

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

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

29.

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

30.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

Ade, George

33.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

34.

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

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

41.

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

Cook, Joseph

42.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

43.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

44.

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

Iphicrates

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Buddha