Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Confucius

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Buddha

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Iphicrates

12.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lardner, Ring

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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

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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

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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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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

19.

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

John Paul II

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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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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

23.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

34.

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

35.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Johnson, Paul

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Bach, Richard

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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 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

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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

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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