Motivational Quotes

Family

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

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Sontag, Susan

10.

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

11.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Lardner, Ring

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

18.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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.

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

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

23.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bach, Richard

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.

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

Baker, Anita

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

36.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

37.

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

38.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

39.

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

Buddha

40.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

41.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

42.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Delille, Jacques

44.

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

John Paul II

45.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

46.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

48.

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

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

50.

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

Swindoll, Charles