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Family |
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| "Other things may change us, but we start
and end with the family." |
| -- Anthony Brandt (b. 1936), American writer |
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| "The only rock I know that
stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family." |
| --
Lee Iacocca
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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." |
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-- Tao Te Ching
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| "The family seems to have two predominant
functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive
each other insane." |
| -- Donald G. Smith |
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| "A house is no home unless it contains
food and fire for the mind as well as the body." |
| -- (Sarah) Margaret Fuller (1810-50), American
writer |
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| "Where we love is home, home that our feet
may leave, but not our hearts." |
| -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94),
American writer |
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| "Children need models more than they need
critics." |
| -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
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| "The most important thing a father can do
for his children is to love their mother." |
| -- Theodore M. Hesburgh, American educator |
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| "A baby is God's opinion that life should
go on." |
| -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), American writer |
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| "Who takes the child by the hand takes the
mother by the heart." |
| -- German Proverb |
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| "In every child who is born, no matter
what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality
of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of
each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward
the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of
God." |
| -- James Agee (1909-55), American writer |
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| "Life is a corrupting process from the
time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the
politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears
life." |
| -- Saul David Alinsky (1909 - 1972),
Russian-born American sociologist |
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| "Don't hold your parents up to contempt.
After all, you are their son, and it is just possible you may take
after them." |
| --
Evelyn Waugh
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"Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of
the family." |
| -- Jewish Proverb |
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| "So live that you wouldn't be ashamed
to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." |
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-- William Penn Adair
"Will" Rogers (1879-1935), American humorist
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“Always kiss your children
goodnight - even if they're already asleep.”
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| -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as
you are to them." |
| -- Desmond Tutu (b. 1931), South
African prelate, leader against apartheid |
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| "We need to make a world in which fewer
children are born, and in which we take better care of them." |
| -- Max Born (1882-1970), German physicist |
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| "Making the
decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have
your heart go walking around outside your body."
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--
Elizabeth
Stone
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“Children have neither past
nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.” |
| -- Jean de la Bruyere |
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“A suburban mother's role is
to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” |
| -- Peter de Vries |
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created
mothers." |
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-- Jewish Proverb
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| "Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make
them happy. I speak from experience." |
| -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827),
German composer |
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"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so
smart my teacher was in my class for five years." |
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-- George Burns (1896-1996), American
actor, author, comedian, vaudevillian
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| "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage
between love and duty." |
| -- George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann
Evans] British writer |
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| "Parents are sometimes a bit of a
disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of
their early years." |
| -- Anthony Powell |
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| "Raising a family has taught me
"hands on" about life, love, the sexes, values,
duty, individuation, group dynamics, human nature-- and
a lot of other things that I otherwise may have got through life
speaking only abstractly and intellectually about. My family life
has had its ups and downs, but the relationships have enriched me,
and served as my foundation." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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"All happy families
resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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| --
Leo Tolstoy
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"A father is a banker provided by nature." |
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-- French Proverb |
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| "The mother's heart is the child's
schoolroom." |
| -- Henry Ward
Beecher |
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| "There is not enough magic
in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond." |
| --
James Earl Jones
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| "The
easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have
any."
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| --
Katharine
Whitehorn
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| "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men,
women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." |
| -- Ogden Nash (1902-71), American
writer |
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| "As the family goes, so
goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." |
| --
Pope John Paul II
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| "Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time." |
| -- Rabbinic Saying |
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"There's no vocabulary
For love within a family, love that's lived in
But not looked at, love within the light of which
All else is seen, the love within which
All other love finds speech.
This love is silent." |
| --
T.S. Eliot
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| "The bond that links your true family is not one of
blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one
family grow up under the same roof." |
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-- Richard David Bach (b. 1936),
American author |
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| "I
believe that more
unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt
to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together
artificially who would never naturally do so." |
| --
Samuel Butler
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| "As to the family, I have
never understood how that fits in with the other ideals-- or, indeed, why it
should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one
roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes
the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?" |
| --
Rose Macaulay
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| "No matter what you've done for yourself or for
humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own
family, what have you really accomplished?" |
| -- Lee"
Iacocca (b. 1924), American business executive |
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| "The more
people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more
they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers
instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all."
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-- Benjamin McLane Spock (b. 1903), American pediatrician |
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| "The most important question in the world
is, 'Why is the child crying?'" |
| -- Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer |
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| "Family quarrels are
bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like
splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." |
| --
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| "As I have discovered by examining my
past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother.
My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she
gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant
by "survival of the fittest." |
| -- Bill Cosby (b. 1937), African-American
comedian |
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| "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society
whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people
close their hearts and become selfish." |
| -- Pope John Paul II (b. 1920), [Karol Wojtyla] Roman Catholic head of church |
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| "All the time a person is a child he is
both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent
he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." |
| -- Benjamin McLane Spock (b. 1903), American
pediatrician |
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| "A family is a place where minds come in
contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home
will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out
of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with
the garden." |
| -- Buddha |
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| "It is not possible for one to teach
others who cannot teach his own family." |
| -- Confucius |
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| "The family is the nucleus of
civilization." |
| -- William James Durant |
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