Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lardner, Ring

Best Quotes about Family

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

Adler, Felix

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Graves, Clarissa

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Delille, Jacques

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

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Iphicrates

33.

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

Haley, Alex

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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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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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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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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

43.

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

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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.