Short quotes about family relationships

Short quotes about family relationships

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”

– Jonathan Foer

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

– John Bowring

“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”

– Michael J. Fox

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“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

“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”

– Barbara Bush

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”

– Richard Bach

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

– Mother Teresa

“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.”

– Bobby Darin

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

– George Burns

“To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.”

– Chinese proverb

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ”

– C.S. Lewis

“We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.”

– Josh McDowell

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Family Problems Sayings and Quotes

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.

Roger Gould


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It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Scott Weiland

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We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Emilio Estevez

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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.    

Emma Thompson

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


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I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.    

LaToya Jackson

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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

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Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.

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Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road.    

Laura Berman


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The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.    

Shelley Berman

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Everybody's family has problems.

Greg Kinnear

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Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

Steve Maraboli

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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.    

Joseph Stiglitz

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After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.    

William R. Alger

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.    

John Steinbeck

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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Dalai Lama

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Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don't ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!    

Pope Francis

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Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

Roger Ebert

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.    

Toni Morrison

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Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

Gay Hendricks

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.    

Bertrand Russell

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

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You can't teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.

Mercy Pheona

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The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.    

David Popenoe

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A busy mother makes slothful daughters.    

Portuguese Proverb

Quotes to Inspire Success in Your Life and Business

1. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

-- Winston S. Churchill

2. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

-- Herman Melville

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3. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

-- Colin R. Davis

4. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

5. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

-- Chris Grosser

6. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

--John D. Rockefeller

7. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

8. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

-- Ray Goforth

9. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

-- Jim Rohn

10. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

-- Albert Einstein

11. "Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

-- Winston Churchill

12. "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

-- Tony Hsieh

13. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill

14. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

-- G. K. Chesterton

15. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."

-- Thomas J. Watson

16. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

17. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do."

-- Anonymous

18. "Do one thing every day that scares you."

-- Anonymous

19. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

-- Michael John Bobak

20. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

-- Tony Robbins

21. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

-- Robert Kiyosaki

22. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

-- Steve Jobs

23. "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

-- Barack Obama

24. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

25. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-- Helen Keller

Motivational Quotes That Will Jump Start Your Day

“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks.  I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.  I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.”

–Greg Evan


“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.”

–J.C. Penny

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“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

–Napoleon Hill


“If you think you can do it, or you think you can’t do it, you are right.”

— Henry Ford


“The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.  If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

–Timothy Ferriss


“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

–Helen Keller



“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.”

–Polybius



“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

—Francis Bacon


“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”

–Tony Robbins


“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.”

–Wayne Dyer

Motivational Quotes And Sayings About Failure

1. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce

2. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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3. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford

4. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

5. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

— Richard Branson

6. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

7. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

— Truman Capote

8. “For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.”

— Tina Fey

9. “Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes—it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.”

— Alain Ducasse

10. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”


— Thomas Edison

11. “I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.

— Louis C.K.

12. “I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.”

— Dolly Parton

13. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

— Steve Jobs

14. “Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”

— Kevin Bacon

15. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan

Great Quotes And Sayings ABout Grandparent

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
– Alex Haley

"Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven."
– Bryna Nelson Paston

"One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather." – Joy Hargrove

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"Young people need something stable to hang on to — a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them."
– Jay Kesler

"If nothing is going well, call your grandmother."
– Italian proverb

"What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies."
– Rudolph Giuliani

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete."
 – Marcy DeMaree

"Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."
– Doug Larson

"When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window."
 – Ogden Nash

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
 – Victor Hugo

"Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels."
– Lexie Saige

"A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart."
 – Unknown

"Every house needs a grandmother in it."
– Louisa May Alcott

"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."
– Pam Brown

"You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life."
– Kitty Tsui

Thinking of You Quotes And Sayings

Thinking of You Quotes And Sayings - Quotes by famous people

Thou perchance art thinking now
      As I think of thee,
And our thoughts in heaven above
      Meet invisibly.
~J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "To C.E.S.: A Thought"


If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.
~Claudia Adrienne Grandi


I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
 ~John Burroughs

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
~A.A. Milne


Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
~Walt Whitman


Someone remembers, someone cares;
Your name is whispered in someone’s prayers.
~Author Unknown


A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.
 ~Author Unknown


My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown


May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing


When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart.
 ~Author Unknown


When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me!
~Author Unknown


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald


How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss


The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
~Svetlana Alliluyeva


In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
 ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World


Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
 ~A.A. Milne


I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart.
~Terri Guillemets


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
 ~Marcel Proust


Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
~A.A. Milne