Motivational Quotes

Family

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

John Paul II

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Cook, Joseph

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

14.

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

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

17.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

18.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

25.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Lamb, Charles

27.

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

Burroughs, William S.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Swindoll, Charles

34.

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

Stark, Freya

35.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

36.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

37.

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

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Lardner, Ring

40.

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

Iphicrates

41.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

46.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

47.

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

Graves, Clarissa

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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