Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

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

Stark, Freya

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Haley, Alex

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

Ade, George

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

Adler, Felix

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

O'connor, Sandra Day

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

Confucius

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Gretry, Marmontel

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

Delille, Jacques

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The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

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

Ann Radcliffe