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

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Iphicrates

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Leo Tolstoy

10.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

11.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Delille, Jacques

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

20.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Adler, Felix

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Anna Quindlen

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Haley, Alex

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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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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

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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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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.

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Confucius

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

Benson, Stella

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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

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

Johnson, Paul