Motivational Quotes

Family

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

- Delille, Jacques

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Confucius

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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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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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

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

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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.

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

Buddha

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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

28.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

29.

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

Swindoll, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Leo Tolstoy

33.

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

Benson, Stella

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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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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

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

Iphicrates

38.

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

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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

40.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Howard, Jane

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