Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Family

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

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

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

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.

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

10.

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

Iphicrates

11.

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

Lardner, Ring

12.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Confucius

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

Ade, George

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Paul

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Buddha

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Leo Tolstoy

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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

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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