Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Benson, Stella

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Adler, Felix

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

Iphicrates

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

18.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lardner, Ring

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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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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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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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

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

Sontag, Susan

30.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

31.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

34.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Cook, Joseph

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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

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

Ade, George

38.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

40.

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.

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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Lamb, Charles

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

45.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

46.

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

Buddha

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

49.

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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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