Motivational Quotes

Family

Family is the most important thing in the world.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

John Paul II

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Buddha

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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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Iphicrates

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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

Benson, Stella

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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.