Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Iphicrates

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

Bach, Richard

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

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

Confucius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Keats, John

14.

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

Ade, George

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

17.

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

18.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

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

Burroughs, William S.

23.

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

24.

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

Cook, Joseph

25.

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

26.

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

Swindoll, Charles

27.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

28.

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

Buddha

29.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

30.

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

31.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

33.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Sontag, Susan

38.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

39.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

46.

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

John Paul II

47.

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

48.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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

Schulz, Charles M.