Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Iphicrates

Best Quotes about Family

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lardner, Ring

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

41.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Leo Tolstoy

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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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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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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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