Family Quotes - Page 35

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

  Ray Romano

  Motivational, Funny Love, Morning

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Father, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• In loving memory from the Family.

  Bugsy Siegel

  Memories, Tombstone

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• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Education, Gratitude

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• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

  Muriel Spark

  Children, Inspirational Life, Coping Mechanisms

  The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

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• Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Mother, Witty

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• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Yesterday

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

  Zig Ziglar

  Friends, Wedding, Time

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 01, 2014

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• * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

  Oren Lyons

  Courage, Peace, Needs

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• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Happiness, Funny Inspirational

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• It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Love, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 03, 2015

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Is Short

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• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Daughter, Jobs

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

  "No Man is an Island".

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• The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Goal, Common

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• Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

  Zig Ziglar

  Friends, Children, Kids

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• I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

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• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  August Strindberg

  Wisdom, Children, Women

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Love, Children, Dad

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• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Fate, Friendship Day

  Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Apples, Giving

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• We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

  Josh McDowell

  Parenting, Genuine Love, Role Models

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