Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

12.

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

Iphicrates

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Sontag, Susan

21.

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

22.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

23.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

24.

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

Anna Quindlen

25.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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.

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

30.

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

Lardner, Ring

31.

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

Graves, Clarissa

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Ade, George

48.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

49.

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

John Paul II

50.

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