Motivational Quotes

Family

None but a mule denies his family.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Family

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.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Confucius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

John Paul II

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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

10.

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

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

12.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

13.

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

Baker, Anita

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

20.

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

Lardner, Ring

21.

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

22.

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

Stark, Freya

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

Howard, Jane

26.

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

27.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

28.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

29.

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

Adler, Felix

30.

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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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

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

Johnson, Paul

33.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

35.

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

36.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

37.

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

38.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

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

Ann Radcliffe

40.

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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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

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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

43.

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

Cook, Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

Sontag, Susan

46.

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

47.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

48.

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

Benson, Stella

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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