Family Quotes - Page 20

• Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

  John Adams

  Father, Home, Character

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, Sweet, Humble

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Eye, Zest, History

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• An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

  Horace Walpole

  Real, Castles, Ancient

  Horace Walpole, G. M. B. (1840). “The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author”, p.2

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• I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mom

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• I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Children, May, Satisfaction

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• Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Mother, Children, Home

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

  Sally Brampton

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• My brother then opened a tall man's shop in Tokyo.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Quality, Generations, Way

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• I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

  Abigail Adams

  Blessed, Roof, Seeing

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• I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

  John Adams

  Home, Boys, Men

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• What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

  Jean Illsley Clarke

  People, World, Way

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• In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

  Kenneth Keniston

  Broken, Program, Break

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fighting, Jail, Childhood

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.308, Inkling Books

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Divorce, Parent

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.

  Martin Lawrence

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick".

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

  Paul van Dyk

  Christmas, Christmas Giving

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• Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

  Pam Brown

  Song, Dad, Father

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• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Important, Potatoes

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• What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

  Abigail Adams

  Wise, Children, Parent

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

  John Adams

  Long, Influence, Individual

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.103

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• Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, Children, Blessing

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