Motivational Quotes

Family

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Stark, Freya

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Buddha

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

Iphicrates

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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

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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

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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]

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