Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Erica Eisdorfer

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Baker, Anita

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Johnson, Paul

10.

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

Haley, Alex

11.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

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.

14.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

18.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Leo Tolstoy

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Benson, Stella

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

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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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Graves, Clarissa

34.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Burroughs, William S.

49.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese