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

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

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sontag, Susan

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Mead, Margaret

10.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

11.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

12.

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

16.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Swindoll, Charles

22.

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

Lardner, Ring

24.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

25.

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

Baker, Anita

26.

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.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

John Paul II

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

32.

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

Benson, Stella

33.

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 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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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.

36.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Haley, Alex

42.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Delille, Jacques

45.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

46.

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

Confucius

47.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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

49.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Buddha