Family Quotes - Page 5

• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Friends, People

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

  Barbara Bush

  White, House, Doe

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Home, Circles

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

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Money, World And Love

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

  Mitch Albom

  Sticking It, Togetherness, Family Love

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• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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• You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Parenting, People

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.56, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

  Jet Li

  Travel, Believe, Big Families

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Fathers Day, Mother, Brother

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

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Mean, Blood Relation

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• It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Writing, Motherhood

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Friendship, Appreciation

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Attitude, Children, Ambition

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Compassion, Realizing

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• I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

  Amos Oz

  World, Mysterious, Institutions

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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Funny, Queens, Nuclear Families

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Gratitude, Children, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Firsts, Expected, Family First

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• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Everyday, Principles, Anvils

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Lying, Agency, Normalcy

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• The family is more sacred than the state.

  Pope Pius XI

  Sacred, States

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI (1997). “Christian Marriage”

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• There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Home, Safety, Important

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Children, Caring, Numbers

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