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May you find great value in these Families quotes and sayings.
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- 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
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
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
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
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
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)
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
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- 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
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
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
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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