Family Quotes
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I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. (Quote by - Steven Adler)
Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. (Quote by - Amy Tan)
Are we not like two volumes of one book? (Quote by - Marceline Desbordes)
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. (Quote by - Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford)
The family is a haven in a heartless world. (Quote by - Attributed to Christopher Lasch)
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. (Quote by - P. O'Brien)
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. (Quote by - Gail Lumet Buckley)
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents. (Quote by - Richard Armour)
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die. (Quote by - Philip Roth)
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. (Quote by - Anthony Brandt)
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
None but a mule denies his family. (Quote by - Moroccan proverb)
Writers will happen in the best of families. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
Youth I Stay close to the young, and a little rubs off. (Quote by - Alan Jay Lerner)
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
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. (Quote by - George Eliot)
So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love. (Quote by - Lois Wyse)
A father in a canoe in which his baby is seated walks more carefully than on land. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower; the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days. (Quote by - Lew Lehr)
My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else. (Quote by - Dennis Quaid)
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . . (Quote by - Susan Lucci)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I am not of French extraction. Nor are my origins German. My father's forbears came from Northern Ireland, and my mother's family was Scottish. (Quote by - Paul Getty)
There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)
My son has taken up meditation (Quote by - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing. (Quote by - Max Kaufman)
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... (Quote by - John Lydon)
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (Quote by - O. A. Battista)
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
A brother is a friend provided by nature. (Quote by - Legouve Pere)
It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts. (Quote by - Shawn Green)
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. (Quote by - Kenny Ausubel)
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other (Quote by - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. (Quote by - Red Buttons)
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. (Quote by - Jane Howard)
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. (Quote by - Henri Amiel)
Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. (Quote by - Eudora Welty)
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. (Quote by - Charles Swindoll)
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
What God is to the world, parents are to their children. (Quote by - Philo)
I would rather start a family than finish one. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
A woman can take care of the family. (Quote by - Tom DeLay)
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. (Quote by - Elizabeth II)
I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. (Quote by - Mary Karr)
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
The only artists for whom I would make way are (Quote by - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5. (Quote by - Edmund Rostand)
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. (Quote by - Joyce Brothers)
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved. (Quote by - Stephanie Marston)
He would like to be remembered as a family man and we were all so proud of him. We are all devastated by what has happened [his wife Eileen after his sad and sudden death at a Scottish Premier League game] (Quote by - Phil O'Donnell)
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers. (Quote by - Jewish saying)
In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
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. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Outrageous, his lies about my family [on Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore] (Quote by - George Bush)
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The whole world is my family. (Quote by - Pope John XXIII)
Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Family life got better and we got our car back (Quote by - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
Babies are such a nice way to start people. (Quote by - Don Herold)
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. (Quote by - Michel Montaigne)
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
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. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. (Quote by - George Carlin)
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong and handsome (Quote by - your mother. (Quote by - Susan D. Anderson)
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. (Quote by - Marsha Norman)
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community. (Quote by - Ben Silliman)
Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is. (Quote by - Louise Hart)
I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties. (Quote by - Martin Fenton)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city. (Quote by - George Burns)
Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up. (Quote by - Roy Clark)
We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway. (Quote by - Tom Dreesen)
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Quote by - Welsh proverb)
Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure. (Quote by - Christopher Gist)
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. (Quote by - Rose Macaulay)
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. (Quote by - John Donne)
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. (Quote by - Nancy Mitford)
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Quote by - Martin Mull)
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Quote by - Aristotle)
As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. (Quote by - Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer)
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get. (Quote by - Wilfred Peterson)
A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. (Quote by - Edvard Grieg)
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel. (Quote by - Chinese saying)
I will not be commenting further at this time and would now ask for some space and personal privacy for me and my family (Quote by - Mark Oaten)
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't like to talk about my family (Quote by - Luis Miguel)
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)
This has been a tough decision to make but I have decided to put my family first [on quitting as Wales coach] (Quote by - Mike Ruddock)
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. (Quote by - Dodie Smith)
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral (Quote by - Ulysses S Grant)
Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental. (Quote by - Conrad Hyers)
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl (Quote by - no superior alternative has yet been found. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In time of test, family is best. (Quote by - Burmese Proverb)
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. (Quote by - Ken Livingstone)
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant (Quote by - and let the air out of the tires. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
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. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much. (Quote by - Frank Pittman)
We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues (Quote by - Hannah More)
The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under, try not to go bald. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. (Quote by - Black Elk)
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
My family begins with me, your family ends with you. (Quote by - Iphicrates)
We have been through so much together. None of us are from London and we're living away from our friends and family. We only have each other and that's what has made us so tight - that's why we have to remain as a five. (Quote by - Kimberley Walsh)
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. (Quote by - Marge Kennedy)
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. (Quote by - Stephanie Marston)
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children (Quote by - except in self-defense. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. (Quote by - Jill Churchill)
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday? (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
I also know people in the Morrison family, the Wolfson family, the Murdoch family. Remarkably, I know quite a lot of families. (Quote by - Allan Leighton)
Those who love the young best stay young longer. (Quote by - Edgar Friedenberg)
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? (Quote by - Robert Brault)
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Quote by - Jim Bishop)
Let's face it, there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma. (Quote by - Janet Anderson)
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. (Quote by - Letty Cottin Pogrebin)
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
The family is the school of duties... founded on love. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it. (Quote by - Seneca)
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. (Quote by - Novalis)
I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent. (Quote by - Janet Anderson)
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. (Quote by - Dave Tyson Gentry)
Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life. (Quote by - Ekaterina Gordeeva)
An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for (Quote by - Kim Campbell)
I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! (Quote by - Robert Orben)
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie? (Quote by - Bob Thomas)
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. (Quote by - Jennie Jerome Churchill)
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. (Quote by - Gary Grant)
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. (Quote by - Herbert Prochnov)
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez. (Quote by - Luis Garcia)
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Children are the bridge to heaven. (Quote by - Persian proverb)
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. (Quote by - Marge Kennedy)
Friends are God's apology for relations. (Quote by - Hugh Kingsmill)
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price (Quote by - only value. (Quote by - Bel Kaufman)
This decision has been the most difficult of my career to date. But after discussing it with my family and those closest to me I feel the time is right (Quote by - David Beckham)
In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. (Quote by - Auguste Napier)
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed. (Quote by - Jim Bunning)
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. (Quote by - Walt Streightiff)
I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone. (Quote by - Martine McCutcheon)
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (Quote by - Bob Talbert)
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. (Quote by - Paul Pearshall)
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. (Quote by - George Will)
I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30] (Quote by - Robbie Savage)
Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that. (Quote by - Daphne Frasier)
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. (Quote by - George Santayana)
And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. (Quote by - Bible)
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. (Quote by - Margaret Laurence)
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it. (Quote by - Frank Smith)
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
Adults are just children who earn money. (Quote by - Kenneth Branagh)
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic. (Quote by - Sofia Coppola)
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. (Quote by - Marquise de Sévigné)
The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart. (Quote by - Mencius)
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up (Quote by - 'cause they're looking for ideas. (Quote by - Paula Poundstone)
Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation. (Quote by - Zohar)
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. (Quote by - Casey Affleck)
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. (Quote by - Matt Groening)
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him, that determines the quality of your friendship. (Quote by - Mary Dixon Thayer)
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. (Quote by - Alex Haley)
You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures. (Quote by - Ernest Havemann)
My father said "If somebody hits you, then you hit them back harder." That's the nature of the black family. (Quote by - Bobby Brown)
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I'm good at secrets, but there is nothing I'm hiding. There are no family secrets. (Quote by - Tom Parker Bowles)
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. (Quote by - Randolph Bourne)
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. (Quote by - Ring Lardner)
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. (Quote by - Florence King)
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. (Quote by - Shirley Abbott)
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
He's got a family and two young children and he's slowing down his career. He's just happy where he is at the moment and you have to respect that (Quote by - Greg Rusedski)
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life. (Quote by - Charles Schulz)
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. (Quote by - Ward Elliot Hour)
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. (Quote by - Eva Burrows)
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. (Quote by - Lois Wyse)
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. (Quote by - Johann Schiller)
The theme of satsangh: that there is Salvation in numbers. (Quote by - Sri Rangasri)
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes (Quote by - and six months later you have to start all over again. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by 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. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up. (Quote by - Ingmar Bergman)
I love each and every one of you but,like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger. (Quote by - John Buchanan)
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. (Quote by - Francesco Guicciardini)
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. (Quote by - Kendall Hailey)
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Quote by - Confucius)
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. (Quote by - John Selden)
