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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Benson, Stella

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Ade, George

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

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Bach, Richard

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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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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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

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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