Quotes about family

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

Ade, George on family
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"The family is the school of duties... founded on love."

Adler, Felix on family   

"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 on family
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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 on family   

"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 on family
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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."

Aristotle on family   

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

Bach, Richard on family
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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on family   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on family
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"Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive."

Benson, Stella on family
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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 on family   

"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 on family
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

Brandt, Anthony on family
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"The government is becoming the family of last resort."

Brown, Jerry on family   

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

Buddha on family
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"Never did I think that I became family entertainment."

Buffett, Jimmy on family   

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

Burns, George on family
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"I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous."

Burroughs, William S. on family   

"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. on family
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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 on family   

"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."

Confucius on family
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"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best."

Cook, Joseph on family
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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 on family
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"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 on family
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"Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on family
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Diana, Princess of Wales on family
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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 on family   

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Durant, William J. on family
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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 on family   

"The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology."

Frazer, James G. on family   

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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 on family   

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

Graves, Clarissa on family   

"The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation."

Greer, Germaine on family
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"Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family."

Gretry, Marmontel on family   

"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."

Groening, Matt on family
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