Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Benson, Stella

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

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

Iphicrates

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Haley, Alex

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

12.

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

13.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Benson, Stella

19.

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

Burroughs, William S.

20.

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

Adler, Felix

21.

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

22.

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

Leo Tolstoy

23.

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

Johnson, Paul

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

29.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

Bach, Richard

38.

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.

39.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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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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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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

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Lardner, Ring

46.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Ade, George

50.

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

Confucius