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May you find great value in these Family quotes and sayings.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nobody has ever 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
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
When your whole family is loving and supportive, it is a great blessing.
But when family members are indifferent or hostile, release your expectations,
and find the love and support you need elsewhere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
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