Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Sontag, Susan

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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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.

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Iphicrates

25.

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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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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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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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann