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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

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

Cook, Joseph

12.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Benson, Stella

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

Iphicrates

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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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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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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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Johnson, Paul

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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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