Family Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

  John Gray

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

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• If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

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• The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Childhood, Parent

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• Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

  Danielle Steel

  Girl, Mother, Teenage

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• This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Love, Happiness, Positivity

  "The full text: Malala Yousafzai delivers defiant riposte to Taliban militants with speech to the UN General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Journal Intime 2 April (1865)

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• Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

  Jean Charest

  Fall, Roots, White

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• I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.

  TobyMac

  Believe, Fighting, Want

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• Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

  Stella Benson

  Ties, Alive, Stranger

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”

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• The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

  Willie Morris

  Friendship, Dog, Brother

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• There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

  Doug Larson

  Faith, Grandchildren, Humanity

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• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Doug Larson

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Happiness

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

  Robert Pattinson

  Friends, Girl, Real

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• It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

  Robert Pattinson

  Friends, Luck, Want

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• It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Friends, Nice, Hero

  "PopSugarUK Meets Remember Me Cast Part One: Robert Pattinson on Fighting, Father Figures and Friends". PopSugarUK interview, www.popsugar.co.uk. March 29, 2010.

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• Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

  Robert Pattinson

  Friends, Hero, Thinking

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Friends, Dad, Thinking

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• May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

  Drake

  Friendship, Angel, Heaven

  "Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.

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• Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

  Dean Koontz

  Disappointment, Home, Defense

  Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman (2007). “Frankenstein: City of Night: A Novel”, p.177, Bantam

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• When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

  Nancy Astor

  Birthday, Dying, Lasts

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