Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Anna Quindlen

Best Quotes about Family

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Stark, Freya

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

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Confucius

10.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Cook, Joseph

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Adler, Felix

20.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

21.

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

22.

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

Ann Radcliffe

23.

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

24.

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

Ade, George

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Iphicrates

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Swindoll, Charles

35.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Sontag, Susan

39.

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

40.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Burroughs, William S.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Leo Tolstoy

49.

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

50.

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

Pritchett, V. S.