Motivational Quotes

Family

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

- Cook, Ted

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

Lardner, Ring

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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.

Howard, Jane

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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

15.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

18.

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

Haley, Alex

19.

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

Iphicrates

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

Confucius

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

Delille, Jacques

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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.

23.

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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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Twain, Mark

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.