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

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Adler, Felix

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

10.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

11.

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

12.

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

Burroughs, William S.

13.

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

Bach, Richard

14.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

17.

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

18.

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

Anna Quindlen

19.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

22.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

29.

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

Lardner, Ring

30.

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

31.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

32.

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

33.

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

John Paul II

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

40.

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

Stark, Freya

41.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

45.

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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

48.

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

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

50.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann