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Family Quotes
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”. A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be. The love of a family is life's greatest blessing. My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. 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. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. A happy family is but an earlier heaven. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. 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. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. 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? Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Nobody has ever before 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. At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. 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 isn't intended. When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. 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. Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
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