Motivational Quotes

Family

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

- Baker, Anita

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Mencken, H. L.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Delille, Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Iphicrates

19.

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

Adler, Felix

20.

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

21.

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

26.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Lardner, Ring

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Stark, Freya

33.

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

Haley, Alex

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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.

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

39.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Benson, Stella

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

45.

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

Leo Tolstoy

46.

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

Buddha

47.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

48.

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

49.

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

John Paul II