Family Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Family
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson 
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Everyone I Love Becomes My Family -
and I Love Everyone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am at Peace with myself,
my family, my community, and the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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