Family Quotes - Page 9

• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Spiritual, Respect

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Divorce, People, Born

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.193, Penguin

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• Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Justice, Spirit, Life Is

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sister, Cheer, Weather

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Thinking

  "10 Questions for Jodi Picoult". TIME magazine interview, www.jodipicoult.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mothers Day, God, Mom

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Life, Best Friend, Friends

  "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

  Eva Burrows

  Love Life, Love Is, Oil

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• It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Home, Together

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• Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

  Ann Richards

  Doe, Mediocrity, Cherish

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• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

  Christopher Lasch

  People, Modern, Redefining

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Money, World And Love, Sex Love

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Believe, Glasses

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• My family's the most important thing in my life.

  Joe Namath

  Winning, Relatives And Friends, Complicated World

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• In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Funny, Sarcastic, Im Sorry

  Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Vision, Thirty, Forty

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• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Funny, Happiness

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• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

  Chanakya

  Education, Grief, Attachment

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

  Thomas Hardy

  Flesh, Faces, Anon

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Mean, Being Thankful, Nerves

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Unity, Pet

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• Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.

  Zilda Arns

  Children, Community, World

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Impossible Situations, Support, Being Thankful

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

  Bobby Darin

  Guy, Different, Firsts

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• If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

  Robert Breault

  Gathering, Minutes, Members

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