Family Quotes
A collection of famous family quotes to live by will show you positive, inspirational, and thoughful aspects to add to your life. Family is one of the hallmarks to a stable life and those without family support are often missing the greatest of support networks. To those who ignore family and its benefits would be wise to revisit their thinking on advantages rather than on disadvantages. And, here are a couple of favorite family quotes; "When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." by Joyce Brothers; and, "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." by Desmond Tutu.Even as a child, I recognized that my father had a few imperfections, but his wisdom outweighed them all.
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Nothing feels as good as when you are with family or old friends, laughing about old times and making new memories to laugh about in the future.
David De Notaris, Feeling Your Way Through Life
Successful parenting requires total investment, involvement, courage, and failth; but the rewards far outweigh the price.
Joan Hellstrom, Susan Findlay, Connie Ray, From Grandma To You, Childcare Wisdom For A New Generation
All of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, are responsible for deciding whether our children are raised in a nation that doesn't just espouse family values but values families and children.
Hillary Rodham CIinton, It Takes A Village, And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
To seize that second chance requires recalibrating many of the primary forces in our lives and shifting gears.
Suzanne Braun Levine, Inventing The Rest of Our Lives, Women In Second Adulthood
Your children are your fertile field, and in their hearts you have tenderly planted your seeds of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
John William Smith, Hugs For Mom
We tend to think it's the media, celebrities, politicians, and peers who hold all the power, but their influence is minuscule compared to a mom's or dad's - those hearty souls who are birthing, raising, and shaping members of the next generation.
Timothy Smith, Connecting With Your Kids
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Author Unknown
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble best to seek out a relative's open arms.
Author Unknown
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
And, here are some mom quotes to live by: A family unit most often includes a mother who is the backbone of the household; sometimes they are totally undervalued but if you are wise you know how much they bring to harmony, care and devotion.
A mother is a person who seeing there are onlyfour pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care forpie.
Tenneva Jordan
Being a full-time mother is one of the highestsalaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
The moment a child is born, the mother is alsoborn. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother,never. A mother is something absolutely new.
Rajneesh
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some arescolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scoldtogether.
Pearl S. Buck
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at thebottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
An ounce of mother is worth a pound ofclergy.
Spanish Proverb
A mother's love for her child is like nothing elsein the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes downremorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
A mother is she who can take the place of allothers but
whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Mermillod
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghillof a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
As part of a family unit, you may have a brother or be a brother yourself. A brother can be by blood but there are other types of brothers as well. These others include a friend who is with you through highs and lows in life and sticks to you like glue.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being asuperhero.Marc Brown
There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.
Astrid Alauda
A friend is a brother who was once a bother.
Author Unknown
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
JeanBaptiste Legouve
All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers 'til the end.
Author Unknown
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
Hesiod
It takes two men to make one brother.
Israel Zangwill
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to eachother-
they can sit in a room and be together
and just be completely comfortable with each other.
Leonardo DiCaprio
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother.
Oh, how I hated that little boy.
And how I love him too.
Anna Quindlan
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their commonlife.
Antisthenes
If you want to know how your girl will treat you aftermarriage,
just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.
Author Unknown
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