Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Family

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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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

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

Ade, George

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Iphicrates

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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.

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

Burroughs, William S.

28.

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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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

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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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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Adler, Felix

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

Baker, Anita

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

Twain, Mark

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese