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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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.

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

Lardner, Ring

13.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Cook, Ted

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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.

22.

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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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

27.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

Diane Ackerman

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

Confucius

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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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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

43.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Twain, Mark

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

Delille, Jacques

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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