Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Family

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cook, Joseph

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

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

Ade, George

14.

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

15.

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

Delille, Jacques

16.

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

17.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

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

Leo Tolstoy

20.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

27.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

28.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

29.

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 spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

34.

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

35.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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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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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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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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.

48.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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