Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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.

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

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 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

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stark, Freya

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ade, George

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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Dickens, Charles

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Johnson, Paul

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Benson, Stella

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

Confucius

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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

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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