Family Quotes - Page 7

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  Felix Adler

  School, Parenting, Aggravation

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Success, New Year

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  God, Home, Thinking

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• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Haniel Long

  Loyalty, Our Love, Criminal Mind

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

  Phil McGraw

  Climbing, Support, Together

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

  Chris Sanders

  Mean, Forgotten, Left Behind

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• Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Politician, Feds

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• No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay

  Success, Failure, Home

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• What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

  Dorothy Day

  Want, Our Relationship, Our Family

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.123, A&C Black

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• Family, nature and health all go together.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Together

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

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• In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Children, Kids

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• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Clever

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Happiness

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

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• My kids give me the balance to live right.

  Celine Dion

  Kids, Giving, Balance

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Being Thankful, Firsts

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Want, Ifs

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• Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Children, Social

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Christmas

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

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• I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

  Janet Jackson

  Baby, Mind, Very Happy

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

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• Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

  Christopher Love

  Love, Prayer, Numbers

  Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications

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• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

  Anita Baker

  Music, Home, Share

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• My family is my strength and my weakness.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Strength, Weakness, My Family

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