Motivational Quotes

Family

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Family

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph

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.

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

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

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Stark, Freya

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

12.

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

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

John Paul II

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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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

22.

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

24.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

26.

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

27.

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

Bach, Richard

28.

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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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

30.

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

Leo Tolstoy

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Confucius

38.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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

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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

45.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

48.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

49.

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.

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

Graves, Clarissa