Family Quotes - Page 31

• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Happiness, Revenge

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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  If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Years, Jail

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

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• Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Baby, Life Changing

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

  Emily Giffin

  Daughter, Son, Wife

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.96, Macmillan

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• How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.

  J. K. Rowling

  Kings, Dad, Couple

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• One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Christmas, Book, People

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• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Mom, Nice

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• We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

  Tori Spelling

  Born, Defined

  Tori Spelling (2008). “sTORI Telling”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Christmas, Night, Wind

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• Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

  Barbara Bush

  White, House, Society

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Trust, Spiritual

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• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Best Friend, Wind

  William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price”, p.394

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• Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Love You, Unconditional Love

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2012

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• 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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