Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Iphicrates

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

Johnson, Paul

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Buddha

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Haley, Alex

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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

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Ade, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Confucius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

Cook, Joseph