Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

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

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

Ade, George

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

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

10.

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

Lardner, Ring

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

15.

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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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

17.

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

Cook, Joseph

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

20.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

Stark, Freya

23.

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

Iphicrates

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Confucius

27.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

28.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

29.

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

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

Leo Tolstoy

38.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Sontag, Susan

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

46.

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

Burroughs, William S.

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Buddha

49.

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