Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Family

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

10.

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

Benson, Stella

11.

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

13.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Lardner, Ring

16.

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

17.

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

Iphicrates

18.

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

Swindoll, Charles

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Adler, Felix

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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.

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

28.

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

John Paul II

29.

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

Delille, Jacques

30.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Graves, Clarissa

36.

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

Bach, Richard

37.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

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

39.

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Haley, Alex

48.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

49.

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

50.

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