Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Anna Quindlen

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

Gretry, Marmontel

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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.

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

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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

11.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

13.

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

14.

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

Swindoll, Charles

15.

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

Haley, Alex

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

Ade, George

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

46.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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

Baker, Anita

50.

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