~ Family Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Bill Cosby

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

R. D. Laing

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

Ingmar Bergman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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 at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Mother Teresa

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

Stephanie Marston

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare a Michelangelo a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Pablo Casals

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is great to have friends when one is young but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edvard Grieg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I read one psychologist's theory that said 'Never strike a child in your anger.' When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

Erma Bombeck

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text][My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Linda Ellerbee

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

Frank Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influence of grace of sweetness and of love renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.

Giuseppe Mazzini

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong not by number of heads counted at the dinner table but by the rituals you help family members create by the memories you share by the commitment of time caring and love you show to one another and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

Marge Kennedy