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.

- Jane Howard

Best Quotes about Family

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

Confucius

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

Adler, Felix

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

11.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

Delille, Jacques

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Ann Radcliffe

16.

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.

17.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Bach, Richard

19.

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

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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

24.

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

Haley, Alex

25.

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

Lardner, Ring

26.

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

27.

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

Benson, Stella

28.

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

29.

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

30.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Iphicrates

32.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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.

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

39.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

Graves, Clarissa

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

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

Ade, George

49.

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

50.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry