Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Swindoll, Charles

Best Quotes about Family

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

Confucius

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

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

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Baker, Anita

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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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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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

John Paul II

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

Buddha

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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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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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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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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

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Delille, Jacques

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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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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

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

Adler, Felix

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Confucius

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Stark, Freya