Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

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

13.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

14.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

John Paul II

21.

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

Stark, Freya

22.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

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

Benson, Stella

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

Graves, Clarissa

28.

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

29.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

30.

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

Ann Radcliffe

31.

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

Ade, George

32.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Delille, Jacques

38.

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

Iphicrates

39.

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

40.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

42.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

Lardner, Ring

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English