Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Leo Tolstoy

Best Quotes about Family

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Stark, Freya

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

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

10.

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

Iphicrates

11.

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

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

19.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

20.

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

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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

22.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

23.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

24.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Stella

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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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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

30.

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

32.

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

33.

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

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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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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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Baker, Anita

39.

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

Graves, Clarissa

40.

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

41.

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

Ade, George

42.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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.