Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Twain, Mark

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Stark, Freya

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Confucius

10.

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

Delille, Jacques

11.

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.

12.

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

Sontag, Susan

13.

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

Ann Radcliffe

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

16.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Graves, Clarissa

21.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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.

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Confucius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

30.

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

John Paul II

31.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

33.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

34.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

35.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

Iphicrates

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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.

40.

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

41.

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

Cook, Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

Haley, Alex

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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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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

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Lardner, Ring