Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Family

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Delille, Jacques

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

10.

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

11.

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

Adler, Felix

12.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Cook, Joseph

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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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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bach, Richard

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

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

Anna Quindlen

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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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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

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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

46.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

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