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~ A tree is known by its fruit. ~ Proverb
~ A father is a banker provided by nature. ~ Proverb ~ Children learn to smile from their parents.~ Shinichi Suzuki ~ A greedy father has thieves for children. ~ Serbian Proverb ~ It is a wise father that knows his own child.~ William Shakespeare ~ Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. ~ Charles Dickens ~ Treat your family like friends and your friends like family. ~ Proverb ~ It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it. ~ Proverb ~ My father was often angry when I was most like him. ~ Lillian Hellman ~ There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~ Herbert Prochnov ~ Those who think the family has had its day should think again. ~ Eva Burrows ~ I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. ~ Barbara Bush ~ Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~ Spanish Proverb ~ Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ~ Anthony Brandt ~ Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. ~ Proverb ~ Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ~ Richard Bach ~ No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. ~ Francis Bacon ~ If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant ~ The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~ Anne Sexton ~ It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~ Johann Schiller ~ A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house. ~ Paul Lewis ~ A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~ Irish Saying ~ In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ~ Alex Haley ~ You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ~ Robert Frost ~ A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be. ~ Anonymous ~ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~ We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~ Lewis Mumford ~ The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ Theodore Hesburgh ~ To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ William Shakespeare ~ The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.~ Robert Frost ~ Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends, they will never go out of fashion.~ Niki Taylor ~ Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ~ Michael Levine ~ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~ Sigmund Freud ~ As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ~ Pope John Paul II ~ Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. ~ Anonymous ~ We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~ Marquise de Sévigné ~ It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. ~ Mark Twain ~ The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. ~ Richard Bach ~ A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ~ Charles R. Swindoll ~ In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~ Robert Brault ~ To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. ~ Buddha ~ I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ 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 ~ I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. ~ Albert Einstein ~ The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~ Marge Kennedy ~ I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible, and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. ~ Victor Borge ~ There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. ~ Jane Austen ~ Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~ Jane Howard ~ Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~ Gail Lumet Buckley ~ To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office." ~ Anonymous ~ 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 ~ The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~ Robert Brault ~ The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended, and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended. ~ Robert Frost ~ You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. ~ Richard Bach ~ The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~ Kendall Hailey ~ Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~ Margaret Mead ~ No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?~ Lee Iacocca ~ There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. ~ Winston Churchill ~ In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ~ Lao Tzu ~ The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.~ Shirley Abbott ~ You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around, and why his parents will always wave back. ~ William D. Tammeus ~ My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~ Indira Gandhi ~ If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies. ~ Abraham Maslow ~ A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~ Washington Irving ~ Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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