Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Baker, Anita

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Confucius

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Buddha

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

10.

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

11.

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

Leo Tolstoy

12.

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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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

14.

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

Anna Quindlen

15.

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

Benson, Stella

16.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

17.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

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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

19.

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

Baker, Anita

20.

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.

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

24.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

28.

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

Bach, Richard

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

30.

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

Johnson, Paul

31.

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

32.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

33.

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

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

35.

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

36.

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

Adler, Felix

37.

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

Cook, Joseph

38.

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

Lardner, Ring

39.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

49.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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