Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Benson, Stella

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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

Iphicrates

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

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

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

Delille, Jacques

10.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

21.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

23.

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

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

27.

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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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Haley, Alex

31.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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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

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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.

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Sontag, Susan

41.

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

42.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Leo Tolstoy

45.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Lardner, Ring

49.

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.

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

Graves, Clarissa