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

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Iphicrates

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Adler, Felix

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bach, Richard

14.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Graves, Clarissa

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

20.

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

John Paul II

21.

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

22.

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.

Howard, Jane

23.

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

Johnson, Paul

24.

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

Cook, Joseph

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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

Ade, George

36.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

39.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Stark, Freya

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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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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

43.

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

44.

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

Baker, Anita

45.

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

46.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

47.

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

48.

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

Anna Quindlen

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I would rather start a family than finish one.