Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Stark, Freya

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

16.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

17.

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Cook, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Lardner, Ring

24.

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

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Baker, Anita

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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.

31.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Ade, George

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

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

Confucius

44.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

45.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

46.

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

John Paul II

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Ziglar, Zig

50.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt