Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Best Quotes about Family

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Confucius

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

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

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.

10.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

11.

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

John Paul II

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Swindoll, Charles

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

23.

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

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Iphicrates

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

34.

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

Ade, George

35.

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

Adler, Felix

36.

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

37.

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

Leo Tolstoy

38.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

39.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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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 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

42.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

43.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Paul