Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Benson, Stella

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

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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Buddha

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

10.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

11.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

12.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

14.

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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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

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

Confucius

18.

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

Leo Tolstoy

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Haley, Alex

24.

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

Adler, Felix

25.

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

Johnson, Paul

27.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

32.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Baker, Anita

34.

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

35.

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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With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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

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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

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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 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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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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