Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Benson, Stella

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

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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

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Baker, Anita

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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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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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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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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

23.

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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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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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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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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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

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

37.

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

Cook, Joseph

38.

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

Burroughs, William S.

39.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

Bach, Richard

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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None but a mule denies his family.