Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- O'connor, Sandra Day

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Iphicrates

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

43.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Proverb, Chinese