Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Haley, Alex

Best Quotes about Family

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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 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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Jane Howard

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ann Radcliffe

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Buddha

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Confucius

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

Adler, Felix

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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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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