Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Cook, Joseph

Best Quotes about Family

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Iphicrates

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Confucius

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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

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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cook, Joseph

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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

36.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

43.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Baker, Anita

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Bach, Richard

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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