Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Confucius

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

Gretry, Marmontel

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

10.

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

Iphicrates

11.

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

Graves, Clarissa

12.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Johnson, Paul

24.

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

25.

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

John Paul II

26.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

30.

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

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

Adler, Felix

34.

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

35.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

36.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

39.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

45.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

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

47.

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

Cook, Joseph

48.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

49.

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

Proverb, Jewish