Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Burroughs, William S.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

10.

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

Anna Quindlen

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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

Confucius

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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 farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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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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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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Adler, Felix

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

44.

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

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Cook, Joseph

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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