Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Confucius

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

11.

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

Adler, Felix

12.

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

13.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

14.

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.

15.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

22.

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

Bach, Richard

23.

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

Johnson, Paul

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

28.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

29.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

31.

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.

Howard, Jane

32.

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

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Delille, Jacques

35.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Confucius

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Benson, Stella

43.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Iphicrates

45.

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

Sontag, Susan

46.

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

47.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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