Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Baker, Anita

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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

11.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bach, Richard

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

Schulz, Charles M.

18.

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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Delille, Jacques

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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.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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

Cook, Joseph

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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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