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• We do not like the idea that children are as wild outwardly as we are inwardly.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Family

• We owe some of our finest qualities to our parents’ excesses.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Family

• A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.

  Unknown

  Topics in Family

• The only way we can ever teach a child to say “I’m sorry” is for him to hear it from our lips first.

  Kevin Leman

  Topics in Family

• By giving children the means to reach inside to pray, to start the search for solace when there seems nowhere to turn, is like enclosing a favorite blanket in their luggage.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Topics in Family

• A football could be swapped out for a brick, to make family reunion football games more fun. But I’m calling it right now: I get to be quarterback.

  Jarod Kintz

  Topics in Family, Funny

• You have another little drink, and I’ll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  Irving Ravetch

  Topics in Family, Work

  Tags in Feeling

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  Irwin Shaw

  Topics in Family, Humanity

  Tags in Romantic

• My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

  Laura Schlessinger

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  Tags in Herself, Isolated

• There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

  Ivanka Trump

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Public

• Diabetes is a disease that’s had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

  Izabel Goulart

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Time

• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…. You may house their bodies but not their souls.For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

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• We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as G-d gives them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• No one knows the true worth of a man but his family. The dreary man drowsing, drop-jawed, in the commuter train, the office bore, the taciturn associate – may be the pivot of a family’s life, welcomed with hugs, told the day’s news, asked for advice. No longer Mr. B., but Dad. No longer a nonentity but a man possessed of skills and wisdom; courageous and capable, patient and kind. Respected and loved.

  Pam Brown

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• Your family cuts you the most slack and gives you the most chances. When the quiz-show host says, “Name something you find in a refrigerator,” and the rest of American is screaming, “You moron!” at their TV sets, who’s clapping and saying, “Good answer! Good answer!”? Your family, that’s who.

  Dennis Miller

  Topics in Family

• If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

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• The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother – which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

  Sydney J. Harris

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• Biologically, adults produce children. Spiritually, children produce adults.Most of us do not grow up until we have helped children do so. Thus do the generations form a braided cord.

  George Will

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

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• It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

  John Gray

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