Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Family

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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

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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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.

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

Lardner, Ring

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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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.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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

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

Iphicrates

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Buddha

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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

John Paul II

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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.

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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

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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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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

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Baker, Anita

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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