Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

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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

14.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

15.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

Adler, Felix

17.

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

18.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

21.

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

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

Cook, Joseph

23.

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

Ade, George

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

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

Johnson, Paul

28.

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

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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.

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

37.

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

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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

43.

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

44.

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

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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

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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

47.

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

Stark, Freya

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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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None but a mule denies his family.