About Family Quotes - Page 2

• If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Progress, Would Be

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Home, Trying

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.115, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Sticking It, Togetherness

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• One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

  Robert Byrd

  Family, Wall, Things In Life

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

  Bobby Darin

  Family, Guy, Different

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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Funny, Family, Queens

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• 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

  Family, Children, Giving

  Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Children, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Families are the compass that guide us.

  Brad Henry

  Family, Compass, Guides

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• Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

  Robin Hobb

  Inspirational, Family, Home

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate”, Spectra

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• 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

  Family, Racism, Role Models

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

  Guy Lafleur

  Family, Support You, Vocabulary Words

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• In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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