Motivational Quotes

Family

I would rather start a family than finish one.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

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

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 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

11.

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

12.

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

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Burroughs, William S.

15.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ade, George

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Schulz, Charles M.