Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

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.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Benson, Stella

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

Johnson, Paul

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

15.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

16.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

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

18.

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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

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

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

28.

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

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

Iphicrates

31.

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

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.

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

34.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Anna Quindlen

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

40.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

41.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

45.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

46.

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

Graves, Clarissa

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

50.

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

Baker, Anita