Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, Chinese

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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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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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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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

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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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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

16.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

Lardner, Ring

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

20.

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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Adler, Felix

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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

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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 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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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

44.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

45.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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