Family Quotes - Page 33

• Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.

  Orson Squire Fowler

  Real, Giving, Week

  Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115

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• For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, America, Civilization

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Newborn Child, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “Papal Wisdom: Words of Hope and Inspiration from John Paul II”, E P Dutton

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• I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Thinking, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

  Pope John Paul II

  Way, Salvation, Mankind

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• For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

  Michael Milken

  Lost Love, Father, Years

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• Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Success, Children

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.64, Bantam

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• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

  George Carlin

  Pet, Hobbies, Plant

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

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• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Meaningful, Children

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Double Falsehood: Third Series”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Mother, Peace, Children

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• Peace, like charity, begins at home.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Home, Humanity

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.529, Best Books on

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• We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Political, Society

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• Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Kindness, Important

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• Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

  Anne Frank

  Relationship, Children, Character

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.191, Bantam

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• Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Friends, Children

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• If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Respect, Parent, Tolerance

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• The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

  Kofi Annan

  Happiness, Society, Well Being

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

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• You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Happiness, Trust

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Men

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• It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

  Peter Buffett

  House, Matter, Bigs

  Peter Buffett (2010). “Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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