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Family Inspirational Quotes
Family is the basic unit of society. As it is the building block of our world, we must respect and vitalize the family. These inspirational quotes reveal many of the elements of family as well as little gems that build up and strengthen the family.
May these quotes give bring you closer to happier and stronger family.
Never be sad, never be lonely, but always be loved
- Natalie Aguilar
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
- Ed Howe
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.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese proverb
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach
None but a mule denies his family.
- Unknown
I would rather start a family than finish one.
- Don Marquis
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
- Martin Mull
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
- Thomas Moore
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
- John Paul II
A man should never neglect his family for business.
- Walt Disney
My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
- Unknown Monk from I Wanted To Change The World
Family and Friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.
- Wanda Hope Carter
The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!
- Author Unknown
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
- Charles Swindoll
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
- Charles Swindoll
Family life! The United Nations is child’s play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
- Mary Sarton
What families have in common around the world is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
- Jean Illsley Clarke
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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold
- Ogden Nash
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy
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.
- Robert Frost
believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
- Michael Landon
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Jim Rohn
My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.
- Penelope Lombard
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
- Wayne H
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
- Lance Armstrong
Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.
- Denzel Washington
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
- George Carlin
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
- George Eliot
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
- Ring Lardner
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
- George Santayana
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
- Elbert Hubbard
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
- Eva Burrows
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
- Isaac Rosenfeld
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- Alex Haley
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
- Sidonie Gruenberg
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
- Brad Henry
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
- Milton R. Saperstein
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- John Bowring
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
- Chinese Proverb
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
- Anthony Brandt
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
- Lee Iacocca
In time of test, family is best.
- Burmese Proverb
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
- Kendall Hailey
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to
- Dodie Smith
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
- Nancy Mitford
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
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
- George Bernard Shaw
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
- Barbara Bush
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind
- Thomas Jefferson
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
- Spanish Proverb
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts
- Author Unknown
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
- Johann Schiller
"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time ,effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep it flourishing and growing."
- Jim Rohn
"At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question What would love do now "
- Neale Donald Walsch
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."
- Richard Bach
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