Family Quotes - Page 3

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Walt Streightiff

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Paula Poundstone

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare a Michelangelo a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong not by number of heads counted at the dinner table but by the rituals you help family members create by the memories you share by the commitment of time caring and love you show to one another and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel García Márquez

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influence of grace of sweetness and of love renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

William Butler Yeats

I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.

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

The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

Stephanie Marston

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

Lois Wyse

Oh I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Abraham Lincoln

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

The whole world is my family.

Pope John XXIII

To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Joe Cook

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

The family is the American fascism.

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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

Theodore Hesburgh

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

Stephanie Marston

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Winston Churchill

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.

William Saroyan

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love they have always been in love although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them even their own failures.

Ernest Havemann

In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

Leon R. Yankwich

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Randall Jarrell

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

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