Family Quotes - Page 34

• A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

  Robert Breault

  Baby, Children, Parenting

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• Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Self Esteem, Ancestry, Heredity

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.

  Diana Dors

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

  Zig Ziglar

  Friends, Moving, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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• The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

  Margaret Sanger

  Money, Feminist, Democracy

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• Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

  Tupac Shakur

  Queens, Dope, Rapper

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mom, Mother, Feels

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”

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• If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

  Robert Breault

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

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• No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mom, Mother, Viewpoints

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

  Washington Irving

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

  Hal Borland

  Home, House, Village

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Mom, Mother, Giving

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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• The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mom, Mother, Safe

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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• When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

  Lily Yeh

  Meaningful, Art, Children

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• According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Money, Responsibility, Names

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Mom, Mother, Children

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

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Mom, Mother

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• A mother's love liberates.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Mother's Love

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• I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Mom, Mother, Purpose

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• The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mom, Mother, Mirrors

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.149, Psychology Press

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