Family Quotes - Page 15

• My family is more important than my party.

  Zell Miller

  Party, Important, Pumpkin

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

  Josh Billings

  Marriage, Pants

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• The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

  Lord Byron

  Children, Home, Voice

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• Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

  Robert Cormier

  Mother, Father, Home

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• No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

  Bill Cosby

  Kids, Parenting, Talking

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Children, Business

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

  Penelope Cruz

  Children, Believe, Knows

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• I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

  Princess Diana

  Boys, Daddy, Littles

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• When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

  Jerry Falwell

  Spiritual, Children, Husband

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• First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Teaching, Joy

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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

  Edna Buchanan

  Friendship, Choosing Friends

  "Now we can all play happy 'framilies'" by Nicole Mowbray, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Happens, Happy Family

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.11, Bantam

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• A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Home, Atmosphere

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• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Cells

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• My family was my guide to my reality.

  Haywood Nelson

  Reality, My Family, Guides

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

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• Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Parenting, Love Is

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

  George Eliot

  Sadness, Deep Sadness

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.52

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• All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

  Chaim Potok

  Growing Up, Reading, Home

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• I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Mama, Mothering, Knows

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Education

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Serena Williams

  Games, Tennis, Forever

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• I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

  Marie Curie

  Careers, Easy, Wells

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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