Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Haley, Alex

Best Quotes about Family

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

Johnson, Paul

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

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

Bach, Richard

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 small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Stark, Freya

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.

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

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

17.

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

Iphicrates

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ade, George

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Adler, Felix

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

34.

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

Haley, Alex

36.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

37.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

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

Lardner, Ring

42.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Delille, Jacques

49.

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.

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

Benson, Stella