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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

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

Confucius

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

Buddha

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Confucius

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

Anna Quindlen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

14.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Iphicrates

20.

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

21.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

26.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

27.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

28.

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

29.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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

31.

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

Baker, Anita

32.

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

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Stark, Freya

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Jewish

43.

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.

44.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

45.

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

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Ade, George

47.

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

Swindoll, Charles

48.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

49.

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

50.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian