Family Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Oil, Rose

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

  Thomas Gilovich

  True Friend, Support, Want

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Memorable, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Love, Confused, Decision

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

  John Flavel

  Love, Weed, Children

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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• It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

  James Dobson

  Loyalty, Children, Home

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• Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Marriage, Legs, Tables

  Betty Jane Wylie (1988). “All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world”

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• A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Children, Husband

  "Marriage Is Essential to His Eternal Plan". www.lds.org. June 2006.

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• I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Mean Girls, Religious, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

  Julia Barr

  Ice Cream, Eating, Involved

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