Family Quotes - Page 10

• The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Women, Play, Empowering

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• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

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

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• The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Hints

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• A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

  Tom DeLay

  Delay, Care, Structure

  "On the role of women in the home". Interview with Armstrong Williams, February 10, 2004.

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mothers Day, Mom, Appreciation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  Don Marquis

  Pumpkin, Starting A Family

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Happiness, Children

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Inspirational, Children, Eye

  "The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" edited by Bill Adler, 1994.

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• One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Laughing, Sacred

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Heart, Octopus

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

  Jay McInerney

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Friend

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Mom, Mother

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

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• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Men, Tree

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• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Friendship, Mean

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• I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Way, Firsts, Family First

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• I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

  Richard M. Daley

  Done, Phases, Next

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• It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

  Dave Eggers

  Taste, Our Family, Inconsistent

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Broken, Missing, Feelings

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• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Son, Parent, Contempt You

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

  Meryl Streep

  Doe, Firsts, My Family

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• Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

  E. W. Howe

  Meaningful, Baby, Children

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Pie, Perfect, Being Thankful

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• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  Jessica Lange

  Mother, Taken, Home

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• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Guilt, My Children

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cousin, Men, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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