Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

John Paul II

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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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 small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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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 spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Confucius

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Swindoll, Charles

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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