Family Quotes - Page 27

• I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

  Paul Lynde

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Success, Sympathy

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• Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

  Joe Manchin

  Teacher, Children, Caring

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• I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Health, Selfishness

  "Mandela keeps his opinions to himself as a nation marks its idol's birthday" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

  Shirley Manson

  Sister, Girlfriend, Father

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• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  Peter Marshall

  Love, Motivational, Happiness

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

  Margaret Mead

  Pain, Mind, Different

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

  Golda Meir

  Mothers Day, Children, Motherhood

  1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

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• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, School, Sunday

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Christian, Men

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• I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

  Liam Neeson

  Jobs, Be Careful, My Family

  "The Hard Luck and Beautiful Life of Liam Neeson" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2011.

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Nature, Women, Responsibility

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Retirement, Class

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mother, Spiritual

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• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Payroll Tax, Income

  Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

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• But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Years, People

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Fathers Day, Mother, Father Son

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

  George Orwell

  Insulting, Phrases, England

  The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England"

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• My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

  Joel Osteen

  Kids, Hobbies, Hanging Out

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• Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

  Clive Owen

  Inspiring, Parenting, Firsts

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Dad, Children, Father

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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