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.

- Jane Howard

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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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

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Haley, Alex

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

Burroughs, William S.

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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

John Paul II

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

Benson, Stella

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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.

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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

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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

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Confucius