Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Family

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

Johnson, Paul

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Lardner, Ring

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Iphicrates

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

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

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

Baker, Anita

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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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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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

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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.

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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Buddha

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Stark, Freya

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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

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

Delille, Jacques

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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

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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

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

Adler, Felix

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Swindoll, Charles

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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