Family Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

  Robert N. Lee

  Blood, Faces, Royal

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Men, Air

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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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• Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

  Will Ferrell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

  John Madden

  Jobs, Memories, Kids

  John Madden's Enshrinement Speech, www.profootballhof.com. August 5, 2006.

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• The family is the American fascism.

  Paul Goodman

  Fascism

  "Family Fever" by Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. June/July 1984.

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• Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

  Helen Hayes

  Dog, Years, House

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

  Paul Johnson

  Parent, Institutions, Subversive

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• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  James Brown

  Papa, Hell, Beats

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• The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

  Marni Jackson

  Vacation, Sick, Firsts

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• What is right for the family is right for Britain.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Britain

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• I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Today, Entertainment

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• I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

  Emo Philips

  Brother, Home, Sleep

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• I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

  Joe Pass

  Tired, Important, Littles

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