Family Quotes - Page 20

• Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

  Robert N. Lee

  Blood, Faces, Royal

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• An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

  Horace Walpole

  Real, Castles, Ancient

  Horace Walpole, G. M. B. (1840). “The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author”, p.2

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• My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Men, Air

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Divorce, Parent

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mom

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• Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.

  Martin Lawrence

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

  Rachel Bilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Average

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• Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

  Will Ferrell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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• My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Son

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• I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• My brother then opened a tall man's shop in Tokyo.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick".

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

  Paul van Dyk

  Christmas, Christmas Giving

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• Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

  Pam Brown

  Song, Dad, Father

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• There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Quality, Generations, Way

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• I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

  John Oates

  Amazing Life, Family Life, Great Family

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• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Important, Potatoes

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• What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

  Abigail Adams

  Wise, Children, Parent

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

  Abigail Adams

  Blessed, Roof, Seeing

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• As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

  John Adams

  Long, Influence, Individual

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.103

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• Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, Children, Blessing

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• Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

  John Adams

  Father, Home, Character

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Children, May, Satisfaction

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• I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

  John Adams

  Home, Boys, Men

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