Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Cook, Joseph

Best Quotes about Family

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

Haley, Alex

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

Stark, Freya

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Confucius

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Swindoll, Charles

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Iphicrates

13.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

14.

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

15.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

16.

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

17.

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

Cook, Joseph

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

20.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

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

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Ade, George

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

27.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

29.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

30.

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

31.

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

Graves, Clarissa

32.

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

33.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

34.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Delille, Jacques

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese