Family Quotes - Page 11

• Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Broken, Missing, Feelings

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

  Robert Breault

  Pie, Perfect, Being Thankful

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• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Son, Parent, Contempt You

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Men, Tree

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• Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Jobs, People

  "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Believe, Being Thankful, Big Families

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• Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

  Gail Sheehy

  Love, Marriage, Children

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• Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Commitment, World, Well Being

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• My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

  Jose Mourinho

  Games, Cities, London

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• 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

  Life, Beautiful, Home

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

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Matter, Creeps

  "Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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• As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

  John Donne

  Doors, Differences, Weakness

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• As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

  Scott Means

  Love, Marriage, Jesus

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• My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

  Rick Riordan

  Cousin, Giving Up, Matter

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• I stay in tune with my family and God.

  Regina King

  Stay Strong, Stay Positive, Tunes

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

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• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Children, Parenting, Should

  "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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• The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

  Tacitus

  Hatred, Society, Violent

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 70,

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• The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, School, Important

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• 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

  Years, Insane, Sixteen

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• I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Friendship, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, “I Sing The Body Electric”

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

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Believe, Evil Government, Nwo

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Friends are God's apology for relations.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Friendship, Im Sorry, Apology

  In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

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• I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

  Heidi Klum

  Children, Kids, Want

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