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

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

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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.

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Confucius

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Iphicrates

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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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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 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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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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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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 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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Adler, Felix

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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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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

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