Family Quotes Page 18

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 quotes

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself and cannot be made by anyone else.
United Nations

Your children come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life does not go backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran

Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking.
Author Unknown

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Unknown


A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, znd cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
Mignon McLaughlin


Good families are generally worse than any others.
ANTHONY HOPE

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!
Author Unknown

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
Jim Bunning