{"id":163536,"date":"2025-12-18T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=163536"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:16:22","slug":"great-quotes-on-family-and-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/great-quotes-on-family-and-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Great quotes on family and relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Great
Great quotes on family and relatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Great quotes on family and relatives, a collection of authorial aphorisms on the fundamental core of society, even if on the whole it is not always idyllic.<\/span><\/p>\n

A family in harmony will prosper in everything.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

There are only two families in the world, the haves and the have-nots.<\/span>
\nMiguel De Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the school of duties… founded on love.<\/span>
\nFelix Adler<\/span><\/p>\n

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Close relatives, just like shoes, are the ones that cause the most trouble.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A writer is always unwelcome at the family table. Because we notice things. And then we use them.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Hardwick<\/span><\/p>\n

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.<\/span>
\nAnthony Brandt<\/span><\/p>\n

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.<\/span>
\nJames G. Frazer<\/span><\/p>\n

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.<\/span>
\nRichard Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.<\/span>
\nFrancis Picabia<\/span><\/p>\n

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.<\/span>
\nLeo\u00a0tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruel is the strife of brothers.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

To be generalists, we could say that we are all children of God, that is, of an unknown father.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.<\/span>
\nSusan Lieberman<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.<\/span>
\nMario Puzo<\/span><\/p>\n

Family … the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.<\/span>
\nAugust Strindberg<\/span><\/p>\n

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for? its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.<\/span>
\nFlorence Nightingale<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is certainly an animal at least as stupid as his lower relatives, only he is also dangerously and destructively vain. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Family values are a little like family vacations -? subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it\u2019s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.<\/span>
\nLeslie Dreyfous<\/span><\/p>\n

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.<\/span>
\nRing Lardner<\/span><\/p>\n

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.<\/span>
\nHaniel Long<\/span><\/p>\n

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.<\/span>
\nJeremy Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.<\/span>
\nCount Leo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Family is the most important thing in the world.<\/span>
\nPrincess Diana<\/span><\/p>\n

A mother’s love is fashioned after God’s enduring love. It is endless and unfailing like the love of Him above.<\/span>
\nHelen Steiner Rice<\/span><\/p>\n

I would rather start a family than finish one.<\/span>
\nDon Marquis<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nMargaret Mead<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nIsaac Rosenfeld<\/span><\/p>\n

At funerals, the dead are the ones who feel better; at least they avoid the priests’ bullshit and the relatives’ gossip.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.<\/span>
\nCharles M. Schulz<\/span><\/p>\n

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don\u2019t go according to any rules. They\u2019re not like aches or wounds; they\u2019re more like splits in the skin that won\u2019t heal because there\u2019s not enough material.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.<\/span>
\nLetty Cottin Pogrebin<\/span><\/p>\n

Love makes a family.<\/span>
\nGigi Kaeser<\/span><\/p>\n

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nQuentin Crisp<\/span><\/p>\n

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.<\/span>
\nMatt Groening<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.<\/span>
\nLee Iacocca<\/span><\/p>\n

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.<\/span>
\nJohn Paul II<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nDr. Jess Lair<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPhyllis McGinley<\/span><\/p>\n

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.<\/span>
\nAnn Oakley<\/span><\/p>\n

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.<\/span>
\nV. S. Pritchett<\/span><\/p>\n

God, Country, and Family, but above all Money, these are the cornerstones of hypocrisy.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.<\/span>
\nPublius Cornelius Tacitus<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that… It does take a father, though.<\/span>
\nTom Delay<\/span><\/p>\n

Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.<\/span>
\nMoby<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn\u2019t.<\/span>
\nBill\u00a0clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.<\/span>
\nJeff Foxworthy<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.<\/span>
\nMargaret Mead<\/span><\/p>\n

The holy restricted family: A loves B, somehow, and is loved back, one way or another! Neither of them gives a damn about the rest of the alphabet!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.<\/span>
\nNeil Kurshan<\/span><\/p>\n

Family is what grounds you.<\/span>
\nAngelina Jolie<\/span><\/p>\n

A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.<\/span>
\nJacques Delille<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.<\/span>
\nJ. M. Synge<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.<\/span>
\nGeorge Ade<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAmos Bronson Alcott<\/span><\/p>\n

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.<\/span>
\nRichard Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.<\/span>
\nAnita Baker<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren’t dying. They’re merging into big conglomerates.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.<\/span>
\nJimmy Buffet<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.<\/span>
\nGeorge Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.<\/span>
\nGilbert K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nTed Cook<\/span><\/p>\n

Alternatives to marriage and the traditional family: cohabitation, communes, celibacy, vows, suicide…<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the nucleus of civilization.<\/span>
\nWilliam J. Durant<\/span><\/p>\n

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.<\/span>
\nClarissa Graves<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender — these form the wealth of home.<\/span>
\nSarah J. Hale<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nLouise Kapp Howe<\/span><\/p>\n

A good many family trees are shady.<\/span>
\nRobert Elliott Gonzales<\/span><\/p>\n

The Family is the Country of the heart.<\/span>
\nGiuseppe Mazzini<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.<\/span>
\nGloria Steinem<\/span><\/p>\n

Families aren’t easy to join. They’re like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.<\/span>
\nFreya Stark<\/span><\/p>\n

Family… the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house — fathers, and a hell for children.<\/span>
\nAugust J. Strindberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.<\/span>
\nMartin Mull<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nReinhold Niebuhr<\/span><\/p>\n

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.<\/span>
\nSandra Day O’Connor<\/span><\/p>\n

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.<\/span>
\nPhil Mcgraw<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nQuentin Crisp<\/span><\/p>\n

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.<\/span>
\nAndr\u00e9 Maurois<\/span><\/p>\n

Under any system of society … the family holds the future in its bosom.<\/span>
\nCharles Franklin Thwing<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Kennedys, politics was a family tradition; for the Holy Family, killing them was a tradition as well.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.<\/span>
\nHenri-Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.<\/span>
\nBetty Jane Wylie<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nWilliam Butler Yeats<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between us is that my family begins with me, whereas yours ends with you.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.<\/span>
\nCharles Swindoll<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.<\/span>
\nGloria Steinem<\/span><\/p>\n

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.<\/span>
\nChristina Rossetti<\/span><\/p>\n

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.<\/span>
\nRonald David Laing<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.<\/span>
\nEvan Esar<\/span><\/p>\n

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.<\/span>
\nAnn Oakley<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.<\/span>
\nHelen Dendy Bosanquet<\/span><\/p>\n

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.<\/span>
\nJohn Paul Ii<\/span><\/p>\n

The family that stays together probably has only one car.<\/span>
\nKnofel Staton<\/span><\/p>\n

The family and the couple are by far the most disintegrating centers of false moral, intellectual, and spiritual well-being in capitalist society.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.<\/span>
\nBernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.<\/span>
\nStella Benson<\/span><\/p>\n

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.<\/span>
\nJimmy Buffet<\/span><\/p>\n

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.<\/span>
\nAlex Haley<\/span><\/p>\n

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?<\/span>
\nElizabeth Janeway<\/span><\/p>\n

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.<\/span>
\nPaul Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCharles Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.<\/span>
\nClare Boothe Luce<\/span><\/p>\n

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.<\/span>
\nDwight L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

A brother is a friend provided by nature.<\/span>
\nLegouve Pere<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.<\/span>
\nEleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren’t dying. They’re merging into big conglomerates.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.<\/span>
\nOgden Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.<\/span>
\nJohn Todd<\/span><\/p>\n

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.<\/span>
\nJeremy Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nLouise Kapp Howe<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.<\/span>
\nBetty Jane Wylie<\/span><\/p>\n

Raising a family wasn’t something I put on my resum\u00e9, but I have to ask myself, would I apply for the same job again?<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.<\/span>
\nCharles Buxton<\/span><\/p>\n

The most socially subversisve institution of our time is the one-parent family.<\/span>
\nPaul Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Children keep a family together, especially when one can’t get a babysitter.<\/span>
\nFrederick Shepperd<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nEmmett R. Tyell<\/span><\/p>\n

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.<\/span>
\nCharles Wadworth<\/span><\/p>\n

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.<\/span>
\nZig Ziglar<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.<\/span>
\nG. K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.<\/span>
\nCharles Buxton<\/span><\/p>\n

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?<\/span>
\nElizabeth Janeway<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.<\/span>
\nFrancis Picabia<\/span><\/p>\n

As a single dried tree, if fired, sets a whole forest on fire, so does a bad son destroy a whole family.<\/span>
\nChanakya<\/span><\/p>\n

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.<\/span>
\nStella Benson<\/span><\/p>\n

I dedicate this aphorism to my relatives, just to let the world know that I had some.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.<\/span>
\nE. H. Chapin<\/span><\/p>\n

The family is an absolute monarchy in miniature.<\/span>
\nAbraham Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Two people who know they do not understand each other, Breeding children whom they do not understand And who will never understand them. <\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCharles Caleb Colton<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.<\/span>
\nMarmontel Gretry<\/span><\/p>\n

The many books I have at home, among other things, serve both to keep relatives away and to keep me away from them.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJane Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.<\/span>
\nRonald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m from such an old family, it’s been condemned.<\/span>
\nPhyllis Diller<\/span><\/p>\n

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.<\/span>
\nAnne Enright<\/span><\/p>\n

In houses where, in place of that sacred, inmost flame of love, there is discord at the centre, the whole household becomes hypocritical.<\/span>
\nWilliam Makepeace Thackeray<\/span><\/p>\n

That was what you did with family when you’d been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they’d pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.<\/span>
\nCassandra Clare<\/span><\/p>\n

The family was an art … and the dinner table was the place it found expression.<\/span>
\nDon Delillo<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t wait to give my writing to my relatives; perhaps it will finally be a good opportunity for them to read a book.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Makepeace Thackeray<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other’s way, what a tangle.<\/span>
\nJohn Updike<\/span><\/p>\n

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.<\/span>
\nBuzz Aldrin<\/span><\/p>\n

The government is becoming the family of last resort.<\/span>
\nJerry Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Family isn’t something that\u2019s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They\u2019re born, they die. It\u2019s always evolving, turning into something else.<\/span>
\nSarah Dessen<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.<\/span>
\nSpanish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman.<\/span>
\nCormac Mccarthy<\/span><\/p>\n

In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting.<\/span>
\nBrahma<\/span><\/p>\n

An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.<\/span>
\nHebrew Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness. <\/span>
\nAndre Gide<\/span><\/p>\n

What is family? They were the people who claimed you.<\/span>
\nSarah Dessen<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRobert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

The rich never have to seek out their relatives.<\/span>
\nItalian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

None but a mule denies his family.<\/span>
\nArabian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A small family is soon provided for.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter.<\/span>
\nJewish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.<\/span>
\nJewish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJewish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.<\/span>
\nJewish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same topic you can also read:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts and reflections on family and relatives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts and reflections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Essays with quotes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Entertainment<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

News and events<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great quotes on family and relatives, a collection of authorial aphorisms on the fundamental core of society, even if on the whole it is not always idyllic. A family in harmony will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,715,98,1220,33,718,146,190,562,171,25,3896,132],"tags":[5926,5925,5923,5922,5921,5919,5920,5918,5924],"class_list":["post-163536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms","category-arts-crafts","category-authority-power","category-culture","category-education","category-english-world","category-life","category-love","category-quotations","category-quotes","category-quotes-by-arguments","category-society","category-the-world-of-english","tag-family-and-relatives-great-aphorisms","tag-family-and-relatives-great-quotes","tag-family-best-quotes","tag-great-aphorisms-on-family-and-relatives","tag-great-aphorisms-on-the-family","tag-great-quotes-on-family","tag-great-quotes-on-family-and-relatives","tag-quotes-on-family","tag-relatives-best-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t