Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Family

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Ade, George

10.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

12.

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

Iphicrates

13.

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

14.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

15.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

16.

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

John Paul II

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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

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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

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

Adler, Felix

21.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Baker, Anita

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

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.

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Bach, Richard

38.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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.

Jane Howard

40.

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

Graves, Clarissa

41.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

42.

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

43.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

44.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Cook, Joseph

47.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

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

Confucius

50.

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