Motivational Quotes

Family

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Haley, Alex

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Buddha

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

13.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

14.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

15.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

20.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

21.

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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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

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Confucius

29.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

34.

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

Johnson, Paul

36.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

37.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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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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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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 striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

45.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Confucius

49.

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

50.

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