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

O'connor, Sandra Day

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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

10.

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

11.

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

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.

Jane Howard

13.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Delille, Jacques

15.

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

Leo Tolstoy

16.

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

Benson, Stella

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

20.

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

Adler, Felix

21.

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

Sontag, Susan

22.

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

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Haley, Alex

25.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

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

Baker, Anita

34.

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

35.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

36.

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

37.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

38.

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

Burroughs, William S.

39.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Iphicrates

46.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

47.

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