Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Please enjoy these quotes about Families from my collection of quotes and sayings.
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Family Relationship Friendship Government Political
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
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
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Nobody has ever 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.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you for visiting: Families Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Families.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search or browse my large collection of Quotes about Life.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
-------
You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and copyright policy.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.