Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Delille, Jacques

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Cook, Joseph

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

14.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

15.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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

Iphicrates

21.

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

Baker, Anita

22.

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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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

24.

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

Stark, Freya

25.

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

26.

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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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

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

Confucius

30.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

31.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

32.

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

33.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

35.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

36.

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

Anna Quindlen

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

Johnson, Paul

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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]