Motivational Quotes

Family

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

Best Quotes about Family

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Anna Quindlen

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

John Paul II

10.

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

11.

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

Haley, Alex

12.

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

Bach, Richard

13.

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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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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

21.

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.

22.

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

Buddha

23.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Benson, Stella

28.

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

Burroughs, William S.

29.

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

30.

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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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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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

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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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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 is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sontag, Susan

39.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

40.

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

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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

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

43.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

44.

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

45.

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

Delille, Jacques

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

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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