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Family QuotesFamous Family quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Orben, Erma Bombeck, Stephanie Marston, Lois Wyse and others.
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[highlight-text]The whole world is my family.
Pope John XXIII
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[highlight-text]Children are the bridge to heaven.
Persian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Honor your father and your mother.
Bible
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[highlight-text]None but a mule denies his family.
Moroccan Proverb
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[highlight-text]Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh
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[highlight-text]Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold
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[highlight-text]The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Those who love the young best stay young longer.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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[highlight-text]Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz
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[highlight-text]The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Gary Grant
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[highlight-text]Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.
Alan Jay Lerner
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[highlight-text]God could not be everywhere therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
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[highlight-text]The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
Mencius
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[highlight-text]What God is to the world parents are to their children.
Philo
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[highlight-text]A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will
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[highlight-text]Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
Fran Lebowitz
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[highlight-text]The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh Proverb
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[highlight-text]Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
Richard Armour
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[highlight-text]Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
Louise Hart
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[highlight-text]Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.
Bob Talbert
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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[highlight-text]Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons
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[highlight-text]I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
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[highlight-text]To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
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[highlight-text]A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
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[highlight-text]Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
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[highlight-text]Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson
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[highlight-text]There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
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[highlight-text]In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.
Robert Benchley
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[highlight-text]If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Parents are not interested in justice they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby
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[highlight-text]I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Mary Karr
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[highlight-text]Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner
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[highlight-text]No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
William Butler Yeats
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[highlight-text]To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: 'Just pretend it's sand.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family... in another city.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Ring Lardner
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[highlight-text]There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]No government can love a child and no policy can substitute for a family's care.
Hillary Clinton
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[highlight-text]Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.
Max Kaufman
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[highlight-text]The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.
Fred Allen
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[highlight-text]There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.
Jerry Seinfeld
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[highlight-text]Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
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[highlight-text]If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse
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[highlight-text]Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff
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[highlight-text]Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
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[highlight-text]The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
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[highlight-text]I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.
Janet Anderson
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[highlight-text]Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.
Janet Anderson
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[highlight-text]Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
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[highlight-text]The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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[highlight-text]It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.
Shawn Green
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[highlight-text]A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Honor your father and mother even as you honor God for all three were partners in your creation.
Zohar
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[highlight-text]I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
Robert Orben
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[highlight-text]They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?
Bob Thomas
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[highlight-text]Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.
Groucho Marx
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[highlight-text]It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Amiel
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[highlight-text]What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
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[highlight-text]Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
Amy Tan
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[highlight-text]Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
Henny Youngman
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[highlight-text]As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.
Tom Dreesen
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[highlight-text]Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Wilfred Peterson
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[highlight-text]Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
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[highlight-text]Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
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[highlight-text]Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
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[highlight-text]The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
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[highlight-text]One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
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[highlight-text]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.
Kenny Ausubel
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[highlight-text]Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower; the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.
Lew Lehr
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[highlight-text]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.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]Sis I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.
Lois Wyse
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[highlight-text]Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
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[highlight-text]It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.
Mary Dixon Thayer
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[highlight-text]The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.
Philip Roth
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[highlight-text]My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
Tom Dreesen
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[highlight-text]In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows
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[highlight-text]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.
Marsha Norman
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[highlight-text]You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P. O'Brien
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[highlight-text]When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: 'I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]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.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
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[highlight-text]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.
Martin Fenton
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[highlight-text]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.
William Saroyan
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[highlight-text]Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
Eudora Welty
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[highlight-text]The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.
Henry Miller
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[highlight-text]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.
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]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.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]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 - your mother.
Susan D. Anderson
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[highlight-text]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.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]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.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said 'Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]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.
Robert Orben
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[highlight-text]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. . .
Susan Lucci
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[highlight-text]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.
Phyllis Diller
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[highlight-text]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.
Stephanie Marston
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Marcelene Cox
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[highlight-text]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.
Agatha Christie
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[highlight-text]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.
Black Elk
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[highlight-text][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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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[highlight-text]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.
Lewis Mumford
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[highlight-text]If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby
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[highlight-text]When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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.
R. D. Laing
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[highlight-text]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.
Ingmar Bergman
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[highlight-text]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 he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]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.
Stephanie Marston
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[highlight-text]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.
Pablo Casals
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[highlight-text]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.
Edvard Grieg
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[highlight-text]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?
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text][My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
Linda Ellerbee
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[highlight-text]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.
Frank Smith
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[highlight-text]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.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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[highlight-text]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.
Marge Kennedy
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[highlight-text]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.
Frank Pittman
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[highlight-text]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.
Ernest Havemann