Family Quotes - Page 10

• The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Women, Play, Empowering

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• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Hints

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• A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

  Tom DeLay

  Delay, Care, Structure

  "On the role of women in the home". Interview with Armstrong Williams, February 10, 2004.

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mothers Day, Mom, Appreciation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  Don Marquis

  Pumpkin, Starting A Family

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Happiness, Children

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

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• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Inspirational, Children, Eye

  "The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" edited by Bill Adler, 1994.

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• One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Laughing, Sacred

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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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, Heart, Octopus

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

  Paula Abdul

  Needs, Helping, Help Me

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

  George Clooney

  Children, Believe, Parent

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• I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Way, Firsts, Family First

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• I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

  Richard M. Daley

  Done, Phases, Next

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• It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

  Dave Eggers

  Taste, Our Family, Inconsistent

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

  E. W. Howe

  Meaningful, Baby, Children

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• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  Jessica Lange

  Mother, Taken, Home

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• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Guilt, My Children

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cousin, Men, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Mother, Children

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Dad, Father

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Friendship, Mean

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• My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

  Meryl Streep

  Doe, Firsts, My Family

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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Friend

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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