Family Quotes - Page 8

• Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Emotional, Overcoming

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  Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

  Grace Kelly

  Mom, Sisterhood, Roles

  Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.

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• Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

  Thomas Lickona

  Children, Parent, Important

  Thomas Lickona (2012). “Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years”, p.84, Bantam

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• I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

  Alexa Vega

  Sister, Mom, Aggravation

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Care, Togetherness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

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• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Children, Littles, Duty

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

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• I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Afterlife, Eccentric, Born

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Nuts, Tree, Bears

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• Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

  Richard Bach

  Growing Up, Criminal Mind, Members

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• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Parenting, Justice, Judging

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

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• America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

  Mitt Romney

  Leadership, Home, America

  "Romney kicks off White House bid". edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

  Frank Knox

  Heaven, Bed, Ease

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• They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

  Rose Macaulay

  Passion, Life Is Like, Desire

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fathers Day

  "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.

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• There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Blood, Water, Awful

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

  Florence King

  Rugged

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• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

  Jessica Lange

  Death, Ties, Long

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• There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

  Anwar Sadat

  Justice, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

  Mitch Albom

  Stranger, Knows, Love Your Family

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Faults, Facts

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

  Erma Bombeck

  Country, Demand, Clubs

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Children, Father

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