Family quotes in English with translation. Beautiful quotes in English with translation
If you are asked what is most important in life, what will be the answer? Career, friends, self-realization, and... that's right - family! And if the EnglishDom online school can help you with self-realization and career growth, then family is, as a rule, the holy of holies, which always comes first and is the most personal for each of us. From the moment of birth, we experience the love of father and mother, brothers and sisters, and over time we ourselves look for a soul mate and create a new unit of society. To speak a foreign language fluently, you need a deep understanding of “folk wisdom” (sayings), as well as an understanding of exactly when to use a particular expression.
Getting married is not drinking water
The time has come to make up your mind and get married. But how to choose this one or that one? Most sayings serve as advice specifically for men, because, as a rule, they are the initiators of marriage. Almost all proverbs call on men to pay attention not only to beauty, but also to evaluate all the internal qualities of their chosen ones for life. Also, such expressions advise not to rush into such a branching step, because this is a choice for life. For example:
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.- I got married in a hurry and for a long time.
Perhaps we can use this saying in relation to both men and women. Marriage is a serious matter, so you shouldn't marry the first person who blows your mind with his resemblance to Brad Pitt or Monica Bellucci. What if he (or she) is allergic to your favorite cat? Different musical tastes and simply - ARE YOU DIFFERENT? Therefore, remember, whoever is in a hurry makes people laugh, especially if we are talking about marriage.
Choose your wife on Saturday, not on Sunday.- Choose your wife not in a round dance, but in the garden.
Gone are the days when a woman was chosen based on how much land she could plow. But if you are a man for whom home comfort and always clean and ironed shirts are important, take a closer look at the housekeeping of your chosen one.
Some proverbs say that before deciding to get married, a person must achieve something, get on his feet, and then he will be able to take responsibility for the whole family:
First thrive and then wife.- First lean on, and then go up.
And, of course, a person is very often judged not only by his own characteristics, but also by his upbringing. When choosing a bride, a man is advised to look at what kind of mother she has:
Take a vine of a good soil, and a wife of a good mother.- Choose a daughter-in-law after your mother-in-law.
Having chosen a companion or companion for your whole life, be prepared to compromise, give in to each other, and not look at others:
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.- Look into your eyes before your wedding night, and then squint your eyes.
Therefore, take your choice seriously, otherwise you will later say:
All are good lasses, but whence come bad wives.- All brides are good, where only evil wives come from.
Husband and wife, one of Satan
Men and women marry out of great love for each other and over time become the main support and support for each other, and then they begin to be talked about as two halves of a whole. Therefore, what a man or woman looks like or has achieved in life speaks about how much they are supported and loved by their other halves in life.
- A good wife makes a good husband.- A good wife will have a bad husband.
- A good Jack makes a good Jill.- A good husband and wife are good/the wife is red with her husband.
- Every Jack must have his Jill.- Every bride is born for her groom.
- There’s one good wife in the country and every man thinks he has her.- To each his own darling
- the most beautiful / every husband has his own wife dearer.
A spoon of tar
Although marriages are made in heaven, each of them has its own problems and secrets. For example:
- Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.“And misfortunes happen in noble families.”
- Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.- Every hut has its own rattles (its own skeleton in the closet).
Often such secrets are associated with children, because a good upbringing and wealth in the family do not always guarantee ideal heirs. The most universal saying is:
Like father, like son.- Like the dad, like the son.
The guy is a jack of all trades? Apparently the father is smart, and vice versa, if some negative traits are present in a young man, then it is quite possible that this is hereditary. Some sayings are used specifically when talking about bad heredity, or descendants:
- A miserly father makes a prodigal son.- The father saved up, and the son became cowardly, or the stingy die, and the children open the chests.
- Many a good father has but a bad son.- Every family has its black sheep.
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.- One black sheep spoils the whole flock.
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List of useful words and expressions
whence - from where?
in haste - hastily, in haste
at leisure - at leisure
wide open - completely open, wide open
Big and friendly EnglishDom family
Family relationships are one of the most interesting and complex. There are many expressions that characterize family members, their behavior, and character.
Let's look at some idioms that are somehow related to family and family relationships.
The black sheep
This immediately brings to mind the Russian “black sheep”, but in English the black sheep does not carry a negative meaning. To be the black sheep- means to be different from everyone else, to be different, as a rule, from relatives. Therefore, it would be more correct to translate the black sheep as - White crow.
My younger brother is the black sheep. He is different from the rest of the family.
My younger brother is a black sheep. He is different from all members of our family.
To see eye to eye (lit. look eye to eye)
When can people look into each other's eyes? The British believe that when people completely agree with each other, they look at the situation with the same eyes, i.e. see eye to eye.
They split up because they didn't see eye to eye.
They got divorced because they didn’t completely see eye to eye (because they didn’t agree on their personalities).
To be not on speaking terms
The expression itself speaks for itself, namely: that someone don't talk to each other; declare a boycott.
The atmosphere is a bit tense right now as my two sisters aren’t on speaking terms.
Now there is a tense atmosphere in the family, because... the sisters don't talk to each other.
Get-together
The verb to get has many meanings, some of them are to receive, get, collect.
The idiom get-together itself means come together.
We’re having a family get-together to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday.
Our whole family will gather to celebrate my grandfather’s 80th birthday.
To wear the trousers (lit. wear trousers)
Logically, initially only men could wear trousers, and from time immemorial the man in the family was the head, the breadwinner.
But in the modern world, even a woman can be the head of the family ; These are the ladies we are talking about, about “generals in skirts.”
My sister wears the trousers in that marriage! She makes the decisions and tells her husband what to do.
My sister is the leader in her marriage. She makes all the decisions and tells her husband what to do.
It runs in the family (lit. it runs/moves in the family)
That's what they say about what is passed down in a family from generation to generation , for example: green eye color or the birth of twins.
I only want one more child, but twins run in our family.
I would like another child, but twins (twins) are born in our family.
To have a skeleton in the cupboard (lit. have a skeleton in the closet)
This idiom completely coincides with the Russian expression and is used to describe some kind of family “skeletons”, i.e. secrets, mysteries, little-known and unpleasant things.
Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Something happened in the past that they would prefer to keep secret.
Most families have their secrets. Events from the past that I would not like to talk about (I would like to forget).
Own flesh and blood (lit. own (own) flesh and blood)
Of course, they call their blood-children, relatives’ children, siblings, their own flesh and blood, i.e. those who flesh from flesh and blood from blood.
She's your sister! How can you say that about your own flesh and blood?
Is she your sister! How can you talk about your own flesh and blood like that?
A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one’s family.~Chinese Proverb
A man can’t get rich if he takes proper care of his family.~ Navajo Proverb
Even the maid has a family.~South African Proverb
The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
None but a mule denies his family. ~ Arabian Proverb
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.~ Osage Proverb
Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.~ Ethiopian Proverb
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife is blind.~ French Proverb
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.~ Jewish Proverbs
A dog shows affection even to a poor family. ~Chinese Proverb
The family that prays together stays together. ~Traditional Proverb
A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.~ Russian Proverbs
The one who first shuts up in an argument is from a good family. ~ Slovak Proverbs
You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure. ~ German Proverbs
When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family- even if it is only a stone. ~ Lebanese Proverb
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.~ Chinese Proverb
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.~ Chinese Proverb
In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Family
Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.~ Marmontel Gretry
In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting. ~ Brahma
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.~ Sir John Bowring
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family. ~Ronald Reagan Quotes
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents. ~ Honore de Balzac
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein Quotes
Family: Life’s greatest blessing, family is what grounds you. ~Angelina Jolie
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~Mario Puzo
The family is the first essential cell of human society. ~Pope John XXIII
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. ~ Marianne E. Neifert
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~George Bernard Shaw
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. ~Henry David Thoreau
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~ Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.~ Buddha
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
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ~ Lee Iacocca
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. ~ Anita Baker
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. ~Richard Bach
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ~Pope John Paul II
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Christopher Lasch
My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ~ Author Unknown
The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. ~ Evan Esar
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives. ~ M. Russell Ballard
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? ~ Lee Iacocca
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
The family is the nucleus of civilization.~ William J. Durant
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.~ Edna Buchanan
Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends. ~Courtland Milloy
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~ Frank Sinatra
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ~ Confucius Quotes
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. ~ Jerry Falwell
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.~ Michael Enzi
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.~ Jet Li
Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both is a blessing. ~ Donna Hedges
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The whole world is one family.~ Sun Yat-sen
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. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ~Barbara Bush Quotes
The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
I would rather start a family than finish one.~ Don Marquis
The family is the school of duties… founded on love.~ Felix Adler
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. ~ Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
My family really does come first. It always did and always will. ~ Meryl Streep
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual goals and aspirations. ~ Buzz Aldrin
Family means putting your arms around each other and being there.~ Barbara Bush
Love makes a family. ~ Florence Nightingale
The tenure is temporary but the family is permanent.~ Yvonne De Gaulle
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
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 Quotes
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. ~Tom Delay
Family is the most important thing in the world.~ Princess Diana Quotes
Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.~ Michael J. Fox
If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table. ~Betty Jane Wylie
Where there is lasting love, there is a family.~ Shere Hite
Children keep a family together, especially when one can’t get a babysitter. ~Frederick Shepperd
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
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.~ Richard Bach
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. ~Earl Nightingale
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.~ Thomas Scott
My family is my strength and my weakness.~ Aishwarya Rai
The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ~ V. S. Pritchett
Family is just an accident…. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants. ~ Aristotle Quotes
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it’s weakest member. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A man should never neglect his family for business. ~ Walt Disney
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.~ Robert J. Havighurst
Teacher of our spoken English school “Jump!” Giza has prepared a short video lesson for you about phrasal verbs and idioms that are used when we talk about our family:
1. It runs in the family
If some common quality or ability is observed in some family members, then they usually say “It runs in the family,” something like “It runs in their/our family.”
My sister and I have curly hair. Some of my cousins have curly hair too. It runs in the family.
My sister and I have curly hair. Some of my cousins have curly hair too. This is a family thing for us.
My son knows how to crack me up. He has a keen sense of humour. So does my husband.
It runs in the family.
My son knows how to make me laugh. He has a very subtle sense of humor. Just like my husband. It's family-run.
2. to take after somebody - go at someone
People, who know our family well, say that the girls (namely, my little sister Diana and I) take after my dad, both in appearance and character. And my brother takes after my mom.
People who know our family well say that the girls (namely me and my sister Dayana) took after their father, both in appearance and character. And my brother took after his mother.
My grandpa and I both love reading science fiction. So I take after him in that respect.
My grandfather and I love to read science fiction. In this I went into it.
Fred has a wild streak and it scares me how much he takes after his uncle George.
Fred has a wild temperament and it frightens me how much like his Uncle George he is.
3.to get on/to get along with - get along with someone
I have a teenage brother. We are 7 years apart. Despite the fact that he is a notorious troublemaker and real pain in the neck, we get along. But my sister and Daniel don’t always get along with each other.
I have a teenage brother. There is a 7 year difference between us. Even though he annoys everyone, we get along well with him. But they don’t always get along with their sister.
It’s not always easy to get along with my older sister, because she is bossy.
Getting along with my older sister is not always easy because she likes to boss around.
4. to bring up/to raise - raise, educate
to be brought up/ to be raised - to be brought up (in a certain way)
My sister was raised by my grandparents.
My sister was raised by her grandparents.
I was brought up in the family of college professors.
I grew up in a family of university teachers.
My friend Josh is a very well-brought-up man.
My friend Josh is a well-mannered man.
He was brought up to respect his elders.
He was raised to respect his elders.
5. siblings- brothers and sisters (children of the same parents)
I have two siblings - a sister and brother. By the way, there is no sibling rivalry between us.
By the way, there is no rivalry between us.
sibling rivalry- rivalry between brothers and sisters.
Siblings are expected to share many things when they are young.
Siblings have to share (many things) when they are little.
6. to be like one of the family - be like a family member
We have a turtle named Pasha. He is like one of the family.
We have a turtle named Pasha. He is like a member of our family.
Terra, we are happy to have you stay with us this summer. You are like one of the family.
Terra, we are glad that you will be living with us this summer. You are a member of the family for us.
