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

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

Confucius

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

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

Adler, Felix

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Confucius

15.

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

21.

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

Baker, Anita

22.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stark, Freya

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

John Paul II

28.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

33.

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.

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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

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Iphicrates

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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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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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

47.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

48.

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

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt