Family Quotes - Page 14

• Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Moving, Book, Reading

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• We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

  Robert Orben

  Dirty, Listening, Stories

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• There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Moving, Track, Parent

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• We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

  Tom Dreesen

  Water, Hot, Matter

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Baby, Sweet, Agency

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophy, Character, Wife

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4671, Delphi Classics

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• All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

  J. California Cooper

  Sister, Beautiful, God

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012

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• Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Words Of Wisdom, Accidents

  David Copperfield ch. 28 (1850). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs cites Peter Atall, Hermit in America (1819): "Accidents will happen in the best regulated families." See Robert Burns 3; Disraeli 7; Modern Proverbs 102; Orwell 17; Plautus 3; Proverbs 2; Sayings 25

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• Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

  Edmond Rostand

  Sweet, Heart, Echoes

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• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Home, Places You Love

  "The Death of the Hired Man" l. 121 (1914)

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Mother, Baby

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Success, Heart

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Meaningful, Fathers Day

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Law, Enforcement, Problem

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Sister, Sibling

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

  Doris Day

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Skins, Splits

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

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• When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

  LaToya Jackson

  Believe, Plans, Ready

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

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• A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

  Mary Karr

  Dysfunctional Family, Thanksgiving Day, Persons

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.16, Penguin

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• I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Thinking, Would Be

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.63, 1st World Publishing

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• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  Faith Hill

  Foundation

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• By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Acceptance, Giving

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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