Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Family

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

10.

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

Haley, Alex

11.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

17.

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

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

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

21.

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

Bach, Richard

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

25.

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

Baker, Anita

26.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

29.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Johnson, Paul

30.

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

Adler, Felix

31.

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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

34.

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

Delille, Jacques

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

37.

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

Sontag, Susan

38.

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

39.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Benson, Stella

43.

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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

50.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese