Family Quotes - Famous Top 100
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Quote of the day September 6th, 2010
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius |
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| A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. CARL SANDBURG |
| A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. HELEN KELLER |
| All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. LEO TOLSTOY |
| 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. JOHN DONNE |
| Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet. EDA LESHAN |
| Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family Call it a clan JANE HOWARD |
| Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. EVELYN WAUGH |
| Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter. (preface, The Virginia House-Wife, 1824) MARY RANDOLPH |
| Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. THOMAS MOORE |
| Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. VIRGINIA SATIR |
| Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. CHINESE PROVERB |
| Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. GEORGE BURNS |
| Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - opening line from Anna Karenina LEO TOLSTOY |
| Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. MICHAEL LEVINE |
| He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. FRANCIS BACON |
| Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. SIDONIE GRUENBERG |
| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. HARRY S TRUMAN |
| I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. PEARL S. BUCK |
| If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
| Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. FRANCIS BACON |
| In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. AUGUSTE NAPIER |
| In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ALEX HALEY |
| 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 |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
| It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. COLETTE |
| Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ELIZABETH II |
| Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. ELIZABETH STONE |
| My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that. BARACK OBAMA |
| No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. MARGARET MEAD |
| 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. MARGARET MEAD |
| Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender -- these form the wealth of home. SARAH J. HALE |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
| The family is one of nature's masterpieces. GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| The family is the nucleus of civilization. ARIEL AND WILL DURANT |
| The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. THOMAS JEFFERSON |
| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. THEODORE HESBURGH |
| The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. BERTRAND RUSSELL |
| The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. SAM LEVENSON |
| The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. SHAKESPEARE |
| To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. MARILYN FRENCH |
| To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. MARILYN FRENCH |
| To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. CONFUCIUS |
| Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. JESSAMYN WEST |
| You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. ERMA BOMBECK |
| You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values. - Mayor of San Francisco WILLIE BROWN |