Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Johnson, Paul

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Benson, Stella

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Ade, George

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

11.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

12.

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

13.

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

Cook, Joseph

14.

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

15.

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

Adler, Felix

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

18.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

19.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

21.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

22.

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

Haley, Alex

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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

24.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

35.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

36.

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

37.

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

Baker, Anita

38.

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

39.

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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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

41.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

48.

I would rather start a family than finish one.