Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Family

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Haley, Alex

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Stark, Freya

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

Erica Eisdorfer

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

13.

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.

14.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

15.

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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Graves, Clarissa

18.

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

Benson, Stella

19.

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

Lardner, Ring

20.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

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

Ann Radcliffe

22.

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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

30.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Paul

33.

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

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

Baker, Anita

35.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

40.

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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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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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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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

44.

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

Delille, Jacques

45.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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A small family is soon provided for.