Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Luce, Clare Boothe

Best Quotes about Family

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

10.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

11.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Haley, Alex

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

Leo Tolstoy

15.

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

Adler, Felix

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

25.

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

26.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

31.

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

34.

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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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Cook, Ted

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Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

Diane Ackerman

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

Swindoll, Charles

38.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

41.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Confucius

46.

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

Iphicrates

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

Gretry, Marmontel