Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ade, George

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

Schulz, Charles M.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

10.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

11.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

15.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Graves, Clarissa

17.

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

Leo Tolstoy

18.

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

Delille, Jacques

19.

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

20.

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

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.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

23.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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

25.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

26.

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

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

Twain, Mark

28.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

29.

Howe, Louise Kapp

30.

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

Stark, Freya

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

35.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lardner, Ring

37.

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

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

Adler, Felix

39.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

40.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

41.

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

Benson, Stella

42.

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

Anna Quindlen

43.

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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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

45.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

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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