Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Family

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

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.

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

Haley, Alex

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Confucius

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.

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

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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

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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

14.

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

Benson, Stella

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

Ade, George

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

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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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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

24.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

25.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

27.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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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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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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

33.

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

Lardner, Ring

34.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Cook, Joseph

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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

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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

38.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

41.

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

43.

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

Iphicrates

44.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Erica Eisdorfer

49.

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

Delille, Jacques

50.

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