Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

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

Sontag, Susan

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 hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Ade, George

31.

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

32.

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

Iphicrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.