Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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 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

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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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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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Confucius

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Iphicrates

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bach, Richard

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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.