Motivational Quotes

Family

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Family

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.

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Delille, Jacques

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

11.

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

Cook, Joseph

12.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

13.

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

Benson, Stella

14.

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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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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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

20.

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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

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

26.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

30.

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

Baker, Anita

31.

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

John Paul II

32.

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

Buddha

33.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

34.

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.

35.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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.

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

Iphicrates

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

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

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.

Howard, Jane

46.

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

47.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Lardner, Ring