Family Quotes - Page 24

• If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

  William Penn

  Children, World, Should

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

  Christopher Paolini

  Aliens, Eldest, Closeness

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• Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christmas, Xmas, Circles

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• Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Issues

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (2012). “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Instinct, Social

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

  David O. McKay

  Wall, Home

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• In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

  Charles Darwin

  Brother, Atheist, Father

  Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley (1983). “Autobiographies”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

  Libba Bray

  Home, Guilt, Shapes

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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• If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, History, Tree

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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Years, Numbers

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

  Paul Simon

  Love, Children, People

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

  Charlotte Gray

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Break Up, Breakup, Missing

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Mother, Party, Men

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

  Byron Katie

  Children, Parent, Buttons

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Mother, Routine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Healing, Parenting

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• I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

  John Green

  School, Years, Two Best Friends

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Home, Kids

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