Quotes by Subject: Family
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. | |||
Never have children, only grandchildren. | |||
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. | |||
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. | |||
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. | * | ||
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. | * | ||
The first hald of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children. | |||
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. | |||
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years. | * | ||
Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. | * | ||
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. | |||
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. | * | ||
There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between. | * | ||
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. | |||
My grandmother has a bumper sticker on her car that says, 'Sexy Senior Citizen'. You don't want to think of your grandmother that way, do you? Out entering wet shawl contests... Makes you wonder where she got that dollar she gave you for your birthday. | |||
If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. | |||
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. | * | ||
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. | * | ||
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of them is roots; the other, wings. | * | ||
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." | * | ||
In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children. | |||
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. | |||
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. | |||
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. | * | ||
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. | |||
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. | |||
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. | |||
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. | |||
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. | |||
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. | |||
Dinner is where people become human. | |||
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