Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baker, Anita

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

John Paul II

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

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

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

11.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

14.

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

Ade, George

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

17.

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

Delille, Jacques

18.

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

Lardner, Ring

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Leo Tolstoy

21.

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

Cook, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

28.

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

Haley, Alex

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Stark, Freya

35.

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

Johnson, Paul

36.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

39.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Swindoll, Charles

45.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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