Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Family

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

Baker, Anita

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Adler, Felix

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

10.

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

11.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

20.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

21.

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

22.

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

Cook, Joseph

23.

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

24.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Burroughs, William S.

37.

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

Ade, George

38.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Delille, Jacques

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

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

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

43.

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

John Paul II

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

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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.