Family Quotes - Page 38

• We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

  Thomas Gilovich

  True Friend, Support, Want

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Memorable, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Love, Confused, Decision

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

  John Flavel

  Love, Weed, Children

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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• It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

  James Dobson

  Loyalty, Children, Home

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• Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Marriage, Legs, Tables

  Betty Jane Wylie (1988). “All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world”

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• A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Children, Husband

  "Marriage Is Essential to His Eternal Plan". www.lds.org. June 2006.

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• I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Mean Girls, Religious, Prayer

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

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• We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

  Julia Barr

  Ice Cream, Eating, Involved

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• If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

  David McCallum

  Leadership, Wife, Existence

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• Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

  Chevy Chase

  Kids, Kissing, Years

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• I am an only child. I have one sister.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Children, Only Child

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• You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

  Russell Simmons

  Funny, Daddy, Wife

  "Run (as in DMC) jumps onto the reality-TV pile". www.today.com. March 31, 2005.

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• Aim high, work hard, and love your family.

  Deborah Roberts

  Love You, Hard Work, And Love

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• This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Perfect, House, Meals

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• What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

  Philo

  Children, Parenting, World

  "The Works of Philo Judaeus".

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• Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

  Richard Schiff

  Missing, Together, Pieces

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• I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

  Francisco X. Alarcon

  Roots, Use, Pillow

  Francisco X. Alarcón (1993). “No Golden Gate for Us”

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• When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

  John Sedgwick

  Study, Remnants, My Own

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• I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Apples, Long

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Kings, Queens, Important

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.161, Anchor

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• Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

  Frank Pittman

  Past, Two, Way

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• Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

  James McBride

  Discovery, Miracle, Lasts

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• And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• [T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Essentials, Economy

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