Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

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

Benson, Stella

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Baker, Anita

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, Paul

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

John Paul II

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.

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

Adler, Felix

29.

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

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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 roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Keats, John

41.

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

Buddha

42.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Sontag, Susan

45.

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

Ann Radcliffe

46.

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

47.

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

Leo Tolstoy

48.

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

49.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

50.

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.