Family Quotes - Page 4

• If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Feelings, World

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Thank You, Fathers Day, Children

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• One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Sense Of Humor

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

  Jim Butcher

  Inspirational, Parenting, People

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• I sustain myself with the love of family.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Cousin, Togetherness

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thanksgiving, Food, Cooking Dinner

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

  LaToya Jackson

  Dream, Real, Past

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

  Pope John Paul II

  Lying, Selfish, Heart

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• [T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

  Pope Francis

  Home, People, Giving

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Children

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

  Sam Levenson

  Relationship, Sister, Brother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friday, Mother, Teacher

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Smile, Children

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• We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Home, Sacredness

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  Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

  Bill Cosby

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies”, Signal Hill Publications

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• You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Relationship, Smile, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Father, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

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• Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Famous Love, Falling In Love

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Quilts, Together, Quilting

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• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Friends, Children, Littles

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• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Fun, Ideas

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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Friendship, Children

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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