Motivational Quotes

Family

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Johnson, Paul

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Cook, Joseph

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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.