Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

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

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

Stark, Freya

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

Buddha

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

Iphicrates

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

Anna Quindlen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Baker, Anita

23.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

25.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

26.

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

Johnson, Paul

27.

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

John Paul II

28.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

29.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

30.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Lardner, Ring

35.

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

Graves, Clarissa

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Haley, Alex

38.

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

39.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

40.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

46.

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

Confucius

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