Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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.

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

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

Ade, George

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

10.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

12.

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

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Erica Eisdorfer

15.

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

16.

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

Baker, Anita

17.

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

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.

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

Anna Quindlen

20.

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

Benson, Stella

21.

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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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

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

27.

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

Iphicrates

28.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

31.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

32.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

Swindoll, Charles

40.

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

Johnson, Paul

41.

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

Cook, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Lardner, Ring

44.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

45.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

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

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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

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.

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

Confucius

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

Buddha