Motivational Quotes

Family

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.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Lardner, Ring

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

17.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

18.

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

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

22.

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

Johnson, Paul

23.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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.

27.

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

Burroughs, William S.

28.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Graves, Clarissa

33.

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

Haley, Alex

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb, Jewish

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Buddha

40.

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

41.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

45.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Confucius

49.

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

Benson, Stella

50.

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