Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Iphicrates

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

10.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

11.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

16.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

18.

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.

19.

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

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.

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

22.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

23.

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

Cook, Joseph

24.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Bach, Richard

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

28.

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

Swindoll, Charles

29.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Sontag, Susan

35.

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

Leo Tolstoy

36.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

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

Graves, Clarissa

39.

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

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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

41.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

42.

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

43.

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

Burroughs, William S.

44.

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

Ade, George

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

50.

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.