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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Bach, Richard

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Ade, George

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

Baker, Anita

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

18.

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

Anna Quindlen

19.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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

21.

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

Benson, Stella

22.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Burroughs, William S.

27.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

28.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

29.

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

30.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Swindoll, Charles

37.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Delille, Jacques

43.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

46.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

47.

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.

48.

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

Cook, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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

Iphicrates