Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ziglar, Zig

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

10.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Bach, Richard

13.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

22.

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Iphicrates

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

27.

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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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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

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Confucius

47.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

48.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin