Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Benson, Stella

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Ade, George

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

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haley, Alex

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

Buddha

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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Confucius

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

Cook, Joseph

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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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

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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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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

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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.

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Johnson, Paul

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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

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Adler, Felix

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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.