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

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

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

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

Buddha

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Sontag, Susan

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

11.

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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Stark, Freya

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

Adler, Felix

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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.

30.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

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

Iphicrates

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Haley, Alex

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Confucius

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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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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 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