Motivational Quotes

Family

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.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bach, Richard

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

Erica Eisdorfer

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

14.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

15.

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

Adler, Felix

16.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

17.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

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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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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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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ann Radcliffe

24.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

Leo Tolstoy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Swindoll, Charles

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

37.

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.

38.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

39.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Ade, George

45.

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

46.

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

Buddha

47.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

48.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

49.

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

50.

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

Sontag, Susan