Motivational Quotes

Family

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.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ade, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ann Radcliffe

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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

Sontag, Susan

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

15.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Benson, Stella

18.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

19.

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

Graves, Clarissa

20.

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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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

22.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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 brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

27.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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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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

30.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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

32.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Iphicrates

39.

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

40.

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

Delille, Jacques

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

44.

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

45.

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

Johnson, Paul

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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