Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Family

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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

11.

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

Iphicrates

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

Gretry, Marmontel

14.

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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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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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

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

Confucius

18.

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

19.

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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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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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

22.

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.

23.

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

Lardner, Ring

24.

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

25.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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

Benson, Stella

31.

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

Cook, Joseph

32.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Swindoll, Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Confucius

37.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

38.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

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