Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
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
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
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
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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