Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- John Paul II

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

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.

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Lardner, Ring

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Delille, Jacques

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Haley, Alex

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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.

22.

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

Ade, George

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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

Iphicrates

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

Confucius

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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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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

45.

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

Baker, Anita

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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