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

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

Buddha

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

24.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Adler, Felix

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Lardner, Ring

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Burroughs, William S.

31.

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

Cook, Joseph

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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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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

36.

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

Confucius

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

Iphicrates

38.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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

40.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jefferson, Thomas