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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ade, George

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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.

11.

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

Bach, Richard

12.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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

Buddha

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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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

21.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

22.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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

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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

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

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

Johnson, Paul

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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

Swindoll, Charles

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

41.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Benson, Stella

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

46.

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

John Paul II

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Haley, Alex

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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