Family Quotes - Page 6

• The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

  Desmond Tutu

  Oneness, Humans, Known

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

  Evan Esar

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

  Jane Austen

  Good Company, Connexion, Seeking

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.91, Mondial

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• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, Men

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• A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.

  Victor L. Brown

  War, Goal, Battle

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• Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Marriage, Children, Home

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• It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Lying, Reading

  Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classroom”, New York : Arbor House

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• If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Racism, Role Models, Parent

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

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• Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Eyeglasses, Important, Tables

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• There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

  Willie Stargell

  Smile, Relatives And Friends, Streets

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• If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

  Michael Enzi

  Abandon, Ifs

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• My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

  Ali Shariati

  Father, Responsibility, Names

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Food, Home

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Stay Strong, Travel

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• Every child deserves a chance at a life
  filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

  Marlo Thomas

  Friendship, Laughter, Children

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• A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

  Jim Bunning

  Children, Foundation, Needs

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• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Important, Ingredients

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• In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

  Isaac Rosenfeld

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”

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• The whole world is my family.

  Pope John XXIII

  World, Whole, My Family

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

  Susan Sarandon

  Ideas, Priorities, Needs

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• I don't think anyone has a normal family.

  Edward Furlong

  Thinking, Normal, Normal Family

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

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• The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Growing Up, Sibling

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