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

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

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Gretry, Marmontel

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Baker, Anita

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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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

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

Adler, Felix

12.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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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

18.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

24.

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

25.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

26.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

33.

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

Sontag, Susan

34.

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

35.

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

Lardner, Ring

36.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

37.

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

Confucius

40.

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

41.

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

Iphicrates

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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.

46.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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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.

Howard, Jane

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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