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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Erica Eisdorfer

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Baker, Anita

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Ann Radcliffe

17.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

18.

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

Bach, Richard

19.

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 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.

21.

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

Adler, Felix

22.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

27.

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.

28.

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

Cook, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

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.

33.

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

Graves, Clarissa

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Iphicrates

46.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Haley, Alex

49.

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.

50.

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