Motivational Quotes

Family

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

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 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

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Swindoll, Charles

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

11.

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

12.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

13.

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

14.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

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

16.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Sontag, Susan

22.

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

23.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

28.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Leo Tolstoy

33.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

34.

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

Johnson, Paul

35.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

36.

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

Lardner, Ring

37.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

38.

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

Stark, Freya

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Bach, Richard

47.

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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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

49.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

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.