Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

11.

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

Leo Tolstoy

12.

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

Swindoll, Charles

13.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

14.

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

15.

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

Baker, Anita

16.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

18.

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

19.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

20.

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

Benson, Stella

21.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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.

31.

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

Anna Quindlen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

38.

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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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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

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

44.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

45.

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

Iphicrates

46.

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

Johnson, Paul

47.

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

Ade, George

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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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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

50.

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