Family Quotes - Page 16

• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Cary Grant

  Running, Insanity, Domestic Violence

  "Fictional character: Mortimer Brewster". "Arsenic and Old Lace", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Honor, Dignity

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

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• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  War, Moving, Loss

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Sad, Happy

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

  Robert Breault

  Bad Day, Being Thankful, Pet

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• The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

  Robert Breault

  Long, Perspective, Waiting

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• As the family goes, so goes society.

  Jean Charest

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• I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

  DeWitt Bodeen

  Home, People, Connected

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• When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

  John Cheever

  Leaving, Remember, My Family

  "Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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• Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

  Moby

  Funny, Father, Hate

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• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  Florence Nightingale

  Thinking, People, Want

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.99, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Family is what grounds you.

  Angelina Jolie

  USA Today Interview, July 17, 2003.

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• The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Believe, Government

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• Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
  The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Domes, Splendor

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.187

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• Those who love the young best stay young longer.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Young

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• I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

  Robert Orben

  Kids, Names, Say Anything

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• 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

  Spiritual, Baby, Children

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Husband, Wife, Peaceful

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• 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

  Children, Sunday, Kissing

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• 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

  Children, Light, Color

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• Adults are just children who earn money.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Children, Adults

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• To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

  Bill Vaughan

  Good Friend, Giving, Remember

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• When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Change, Children

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