Motivational Quotes

Family

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

13.

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

Lardner, Ring

14.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

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

Anna Quindlen

16.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

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

20.

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

Iphicrates

21.

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

22.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

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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

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

33.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

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.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Bach, Richard

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

Confucius

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

Benson, Stella

43.

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

44.

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

John Paul II

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

Proverb, Jewish

50.

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