QUOTES ABOUT FAMILY

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. ~Winston Churchill

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One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Proverb Quotes

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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. ~Mexican Proverb Quotes

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A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, it does take a father, though. ~Tome Delay

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Love makes a family. ~Gigi Kaeser

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The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing. ~Anonymous

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

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Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ~Anthony Brandt

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Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. ~Rosaleen Dickson

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I believe the only people that should be around a child raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child. ~Angelina Jolie

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A tree is known by its fruit. ~Proverb Quotes

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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? ~Elbert Hubbard

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ~George Bernard Shaw

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Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. ~Anonymous

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It’s funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them. ~Anonymous

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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~Mario Puzo

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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. ~Richard Bach

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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ~Alex Haley

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A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh

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All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~Leo Tolstoy

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ~Matt Groening

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Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ~Marmontel Gretry

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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ~Clarissa Graves

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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended – and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended. ~Robert Frost

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there is always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ~Marcelene Cox

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When you look at your life, the greatest happiness is family happiness. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ~Anne Frank

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No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, “I wish I’d spent more time at the office.” ~Anonymous

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The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. ~James G. Frazer

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ~Benjamin Franklin

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We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. ~Henry Ward Beecher

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Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. ~Jacques Delille

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I’ve been so focused on state government; I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. ~Sarah Palin

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That’s what so many people didn’t understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes. ~Orson Scott Card

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~W. Paul Young

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Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it. ~Mindy Kaling

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I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ~Toni Morrison

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I like football. I find it’s an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. ~Craig Ferguson

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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband’s family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick… But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn’t she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye? ~Lisa See

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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you. ~Zadie Smith

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A mafia don could snap his fingers and somebody would snap my neck. But when I snap my fingers, people start dancing. Or at least my clones would. ~Jarod Kintz

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Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream. ~James Ross

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Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. ~Stephen Chbosky

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ~Thornton Wilder

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The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. ~Michael Pollan

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Small acts of kindness are priceless. ~M.G. Wells

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Except for cases that clearly involved a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they’re right – a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. ~Sue Grafton

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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ~Alex Haley

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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. ~J.D. Salinger

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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. ~Voltaire

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I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ~Oscar Wilde

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