Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Graves, Clarissa

Best Quotes about Family

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

10.

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

Benson, Stella

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

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

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

Anna Quindlen

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

27.

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

28.

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

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.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

33.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

34.

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

Burroughs, William S.

35.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

36.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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

40.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

42.

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

Adler, Felix

43.

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

Haley, Alex

44.

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

45.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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