Motivational Quotes

Family

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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Best Quotes about Family

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Baker, Anita

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

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

Benson, Stella

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

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

Iphicrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ade, George

10.

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

11.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

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

17.

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

Swindoll, Charles

18.

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

19.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

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

Confucius

23.

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Bach, Richard

30.

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

31.

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

Sontag, Susan

32.

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

33.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

34.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

35.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

36.

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

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Lardner, Ring

45.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

46.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

47.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

48.

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

49.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

50.

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