Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Leo Tolstoy

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Delille, Jacques

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Ann Radcliffe

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

Lardner, Ring

18.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Graves, Clarissa

20.

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

21.

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

Stark, Freya

23.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

24.

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

Haley, Alex

25.

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.

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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

27.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Paul

33.

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

34.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

35.

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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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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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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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

40.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.