Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Johnson, Paul

Best Quotes about 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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

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

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

Adler, Felix

12.

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

Baker, Anita

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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

14.

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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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

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.

Howard, Jane

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Iphicrates

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

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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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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

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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.

25.

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

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

29.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

39.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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