Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Ziglar, Zig

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ade, George

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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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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

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

Iphicrates

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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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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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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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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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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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

Jane Howard

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

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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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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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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Proverb, Jewish

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