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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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A sister is a forever friend.
- Anonymous
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
- Marion C. Garretty
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A man should never neglect his family for business.
-
Walt Disney
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
-
Margaret Mead
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Consider a new beginning with your family - choose to take them less seriously.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-
George Bernard Shaw
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
- Charlotte Gray
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
-
Desmond Tutu
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
-
Will Durant
Consider a new beginning with your family - choose to take them less seriously.
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Family is forever.
- Anonymous saying
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
- Amy Li
Love them as they are, and forgive them everything.
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The world is one big family.
- Anonymous saying
A mother understands what a child does not say.
- Jewish proverb
Home is where our loved ones are.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honoré de Balzac
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
- Spanish Proverb
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
- Toni Morrison
But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Let today be a day to have gratitude for our family.
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Love begins at home.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
- Maya Angelou
A sister is both your mirror and your opposite.
- Elizabeth Fishel
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous quote
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
-
Oscar Wilde
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schultz' Peanuts cartoon
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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
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