Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Confucius

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Adler, Felix

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

10.

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

11.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

Johnson, Paul

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

19.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

20.

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

22.

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

John Paul II

23.

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

Stark, Freya

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Leo Tolstoy

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

30.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

31.

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

Ade, George

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

37.

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

Graves, Clarissa

38.

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

39.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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

Anna Quindlen

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

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.

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

48.

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

Lardner, Ring

49.

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

Cook, Joseph

50.

Family is the most important thing in the world.