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

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

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Haley, Alex

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

Iphicrates

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

John Paul II

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

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

11.

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

Bach, Richard

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

Swindoll, Charles

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

26.

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.

Lair, Dr. Jess

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Burroughs, William S.

30.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

31.

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

32.

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

Anna Quindlen

33.

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

Cook, Joseph

34.

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

35.

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

Johnson, Paul

36.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

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

Sontag, Susan

40.

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.

41.

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

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.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

44.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.