Family Quotes - Page 3

• You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

  Rod Stewart

  The End Of The Day, Wonder, Ends

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Smile

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  The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  Lee Iacocca

  Cousin, Rocks, Family Love

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• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
  is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
  and bearing one another's burdens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ratios, Burden, Seeking

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sibling, Character, Common Threads

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• One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Mean, One Day

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Isobelle Carmody (2009). “Alyzon Whitestarr”, p.499, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

  Charles Kuralt

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Happy, Christmas

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• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Happiness, Children

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

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• Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

  Robin Hobb

  Inspirational, Home, People

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate”, Spectra

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• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Prayer, Children

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• Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Men, Criminal Mind

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• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Children, Giving

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

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• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Home, Parenting

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Marriage, Couple, Women

  "Divorce". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Meaningful, Oil

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• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivation

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Vocabulary, Light

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• You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Inspirational, Return, Born

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• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Loving Life, Family Love, Love And Family

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• Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.

  A.M. Homes

  Children, Agreement, Years

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.93, Granta Books

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• If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Progress, Would Be, Boat

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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