Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Iphicrates

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Baker, Anita

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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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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

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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.

13.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Confucius

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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

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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 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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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 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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Cook, Joseph

28.

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

Ade, George

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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

Haley, Alex

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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.

Howard, Jane

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Delille, Jacques

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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.