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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Adler, Felix

11.

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

Anna Quindlen

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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.

19.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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

Baker, Anita

22.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

25.

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

John Paul II

26.

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

27.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

28.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

35.

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

Swindoll, Charles

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Graves, Clarissa

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lardner, Ring

47.

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

48.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

49.

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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann