Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Iphicrates

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haley, Alex

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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

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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

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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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

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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

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Buddha

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Benson, Stella

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Bach, Richard

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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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

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ade, George

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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