Family Quotes - Page 21

• If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.

  John Adams

  Home, Mean, Long

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, Sweet, Humble

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

  Michael Howard

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

  Francis Thompson

  Mother, Loneliness, Firsts

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• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

  Earl Wilson

  Home, Car, Waiting

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• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Children, Wife

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.

  Steve Forbes

  Children, Cutting, Growth

  Announcement of Candidacy, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.

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• As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

  John Madden

  Jobs, Memories, Kids

  John Madden's Enshrinement Speech, www.profootballhof.com. August 5, 2006.

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• The family is the American fascism.

  Paul Goodman

  Fascism

  "Family Fever" by Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. June/July 1984.

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• For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

  Pam Brown

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

  Helen Hayes

  Dog, Years, House

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Dirty, Next Day

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• Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

  Barbara Bush

  Mother, Children, Father

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

  Paul Johnson

  Parent, Institutions, Subversive

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• ... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Discipline, Wife

  1625 Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

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• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  James Brown

  Papa, Hell, Beats

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• The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

  Marni Jackson

  Vacation, Sick, Firsts

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• What is right for the family is right for Britain.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Britain

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• If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

  Jon Stewart

  Firsts, Ifs

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• I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Today, Entertainment

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• I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

  Emo Philips

  Brother, Home, Sleep

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• [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Strong, Kids

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• I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Kids, Gay

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• I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

  Joe Pass

  Tired, Important, Littles

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• It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

  Chris Tucker

  Feelings, Reunion, Good Feeling

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