He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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