Motivational Quotes

Family

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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Best Quotes about Family

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

Iphicrates

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

John Paul II

12.

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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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

15.

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.

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

22.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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.

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

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

34.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

35.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

36.

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

Haley, Alex

37.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Benson, Stella

38.

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

Ann Radcliffe

39.

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

Stark, Freya

40.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

41.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

42.

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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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

44.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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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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

48.

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

49.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

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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