Family Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 4
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
Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Ed Howe
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
Margaret Mead
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
Mexican Proverb
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
Milton R. Saperstein
Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.
Marsha Norman
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
Anonymous
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Marquise De Sevigne
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Helen Keller
Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.
Mary Randolph
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano
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
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.
Sara Paddison
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
Chinese Proverb
I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child.
Angelina Jolie
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
Who has not watched a mother stroke her child’s cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?
John Cowper Powys
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence
It’s funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them
Anonymous
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.
William Shakespeare
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand.
Bob Dylan
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