Family Quotes - Page 36

• All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

  Douglas Coupland

  Different, Next, Psychotic

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

  Robert Breault

  Mom, Mother, Two

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• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Children, Parenting, Giving

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2017

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• All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Happiness, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters”, p.155

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• Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Stormie Omartian (2010). “Seven Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Home, Government, Community

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• A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Son, Legacy

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.88, Editora Dracaena

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• Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

  Novak Djokovic

  Important, Sticks, Important Things

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• I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

  Novak Djokovic

  My Family, Wells

  "Novak & Ana". Interview with Emma John, Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Enemy, Outsiders

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Heaven

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• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Beard, He Man

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• Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

  Bill Cosby

  Father, Intelligent, Fake

  "Bill Cosby: Himself", 1983.

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• There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

  Robert Breault

  Strong, Sibling, Parent

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• Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Inspiration, Middle School

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• If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Blessed, People

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Children, Law

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• My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Men, Amazing Man

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• Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, War, Home

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Ties, House

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• There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

  Hazel Scott

  Children, Reason, Born

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• No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

  Bernard Williams

  Girl, Dog, Years

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• Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Humorous, Motherhood

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• In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

  Martina McBride

  Wise, Daughter, Strong

  Song: In My Daughter's Eyes, Album: Martina, 2003

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