Motivational Quotes

Family

None but a mule denies his family.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Family

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

Buddha

12.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

13.

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.

14.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

16.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

John Paul II

21.

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.

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

28.

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

Cook, Joseph

30.

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

Stark, Freya

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.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Haley, Alex

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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

42.

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

Bach, Richard

43.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

45.

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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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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

49.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese