Motivational Quotes

Family

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Family

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Buddha

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

John Paul II

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

10.

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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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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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

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

Cook, Joseph

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

18.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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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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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.

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Pritchett, V. S.

30.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Confucius

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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.

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bach, Richard

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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

45.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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