Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

John Paul II

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

Stark, Freya

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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.

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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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

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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 minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

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

Haley, Alex

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Adler, Felix

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry