Family Quotes and Sayings
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- 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
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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
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
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
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
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
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
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
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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