Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Paul

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Bach, Richard

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Adler, Felix

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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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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

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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

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

Buddha