Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Gretry, Marmontel

Best Quotes about Family

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Anna Quindlen

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

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 is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Johnson, Paul

12.

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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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

15.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Buddha

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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.

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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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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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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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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

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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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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.

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iphicrates

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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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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