Family Quotes - Page 2

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

Anonymous

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Insanity is hereditary you get it from your children.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family ... in another city.

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.

Anonymous

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.

Lew Lehr

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Amy Tan

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.

My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.

A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.

Anonymous

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

Anonymous

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

Robert Benchley

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

Seneca

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Wilfred Peterson

Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Bourne

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Brooks Adams

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

Alan Jay Lerner

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Edgar Friedenberg

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

Mencius

What God is to the world parents are to their children.

Philo

Honor your father and your mother.

Bible

Honor your father and mother even as you honor God for all three were partners in your creation.

Zohar

Remember no matter how many candles you blow out this year there's one gal who will always think of you as young strong and handsome - your mother.

Susan D. Anderson

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

God could not be everywhere therefore he made mothers.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.

Lois Wyse

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Children are the bridge to heaven.

Persian Proverb

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 58 Next