Motivational Quotes

Family

A small family is soon provided for.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Johnson, Paul

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

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cook, Joseph

13.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

14.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

15.

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 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

17.

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

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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.

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Haley, Alex

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Swindoll, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Benson, Stella

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Adler, Felix

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Bach, Richard

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.