Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Iphicrates

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Erica Eisdorfer

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

Lardner, Ring

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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

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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

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

Confucius

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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Keats, John

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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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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 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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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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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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

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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 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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Adler, Felix

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

John Paul II

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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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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