FAMILY
FAMILY - 1
“These words that I am commanding you today must be on your heart, and you must inculcate them in your sons and speak to them when you sit in your house and you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.” – Moses – Deut. 6:6,7 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES– 1473 B.C.E.
It’s not just that families have less time with their kids; we just spend more time doing battle with our own culture. – Ellen Goodman
It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass
There is no king that has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. – Helen Keller
Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law. – Voltaire
Simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. – Andy Rooney
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. – George Bernard. Shaw
“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you gave birth. – Erma Bombeck
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – John Browning
When my mother had to make dinner for 8, she’d make enough for 16, and only serve half.– Gracie Allen
Three things that children must know—who’s the boss, what the rules are, and who is going to enforce them. – Lew Powers
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible—I wish to thank my children for making it all necessary. – Victor Borge
“Thank you for birds and grass and trees and flowers.” – My son Toby’s prayer at four years old
In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past and a bridge to our future.– Alex Haley
During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was so scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that so I wasn’t scared anymore. – Cindy – age 5
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. – Benjamin Disraeli
FAMILY - 2
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that Jehovah your God has given you.” – Moses – Ex. 20:12 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Get that garbage out of here! It stinks like CAIRN! – My Momma (Cairn—short for carrion)
A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, and occasional animal, and the common cold. – Ogden Nash
As much as we watch what our children do with their lives, they are watching what we do with ours. – Joyce Maynard
Being 80 is a lot better than being 70. At 70 people are mad at you for everything. At 80, you have the perfect excuse, no matter what you do. It’s your second childhood. – Ann Landers
Oops! – Everyone
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family, in another city. – George Burns
I’ve learned that you should never say “no” to a gift from a child. – Andy Rooney
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could ever give a person; he believed in me. – (Coach) Jim Valvano
If I had my life to live over, I would have listened to my grandfather ramble on about his youth. – Erma Bombeck
You must floss your teeth, if you want to keep them. You must study with your children, if you want to keep them. – Joseph Siranko (Traveling minister)
“Life leaves all looking a little ridiculous at times, so we might as well relax and enjoy it when the laugh is on us.” – Art Linkletter – OOPS! OR LIFE’S AWFUL MOMENTS
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Voltaire
Never idealize them. They will never live up to your expectations. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVE
Don’t find fault, find remedy. – Henry Ford
“Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her fame as a grower of flowers grew over three counties. Because of her creativity, even my memories of poverty are seen through a screen of blooms.” – Alice Walker – IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHER’S GARDENS
What we inherit from previous generations, not materially, but spiritually, emotionally and intellectually, is our real legacy. – Gary Pulliam
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. – Paula Poundstone
FAMILY - 3
“Certainly if one does not provide for those who are his own, and especially for those who are members of his own household, he has disowned the faith and is worse that a person without faith.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Tim. 5:8 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
It’s better to give children rules to break rather than no rules at all. – Tipper Gore
When my grandmother got arthritis she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So now my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love. – Rebecca (age 8)
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back home. – Henny Youngman
What’s done to children they will do to society. – Dr. Karl Meninger
I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so… unpredictable. – Steve Irwin
Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. – P. J. O’Rourke
Infrequent verbal expressions of love are like trying to fit old shoes on a teenager—they just don’t fit. You can never go back. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVE
Talk is not wasted affection. Affection is never wasted. – Henry W. Longfellow
Adults are obsolete children. – Doctor Suess
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. – Calvin Trillin
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. – Ed Asner
Houseguests should be regarded as perishables. Leave them out too long and they go bad. – Erma Bombeck
Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken. – Elaine (age 5)
E-mail is like after a hard day’s work, coming home and finding 70 people in your kitchen. – John O’Donoghue
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter DeVries
I’ve learned that when your newly-born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, you are hooked for life. – Andy Rooney
FAMILY - 4
“What does this proverb that you quote in the land of Israel mean: “Fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the teeth of the sons are set on edge.”– Prophet Ezekiel – Ex. 18:2 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going. – P. J. O’Rourke
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration that you are wonderful. – Ann Landers
We learn what our children believe by listening to their prayers. – Responsible parents
If you never want to see a man again, say, “I love you, I want to marry you, and I want to have children.” They leave skid marks! – Rita Rudner
Discipline is learned through the seat of the pants—that’s what buns are for. Many parents train their dogs more than their kids. – Paul Harvey
Parentechtomy – the removal of a parent. – Leo Buscaglia
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. – Jewish Talmud
Just remember, I know a whole lot more about being young than you know about being old. – A father to his teenage son
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. – Margaret Mead
Home is the place where, if you go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost
Youth is not a time in life—it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. – Betty Pitzer
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. – Rodney Dangerfield
An ideal wife is any woman that has an ideal husband. – Booth Tarkington
Love is what’s left in a relationship after all selfishness has been removed. – Cullen Hightower
There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes
Feelings of worth can flourish in an atmosphere when individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexable—the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. – Virginia Satir
Because of their size parents are difficult to discipline. – P. J. O’Rourke
FAMILY - 5
“And fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.” – Apostle Paul – Eph. 6:4 – The BIBLE
I’ve learned that having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful things in the world. – Andy Rooney
In every culture with a written history, there has always been a hope for the future, spurred on by the preservation of family and the eternal search for God. – Gary Pulliam
We basically go back to children when we’re in the dentist’s chair. – Arthur Benjamin
Death is a challenge. It tells you not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
In general, my children refuse to eat anything that doesn’t dance on television. – Erma Bombeck
“The self-esteem movement has done little except make children feel entitled, as if the experts just learned the secret of good parenting, and it was this: Make you children feel good about themselves. Avoid using negative words such as ‘no’ and ‘bad.’ Keep telling your children that they are special; they can be anything they want to be. It was as if feeling good was more important than being good.” – Dr. Jean M. Twenge (PhD) – GENERATION ME
God will help you with the high cost of living—but He will not help you with the cost of living high. – Doug Larsen
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. – Voltaire
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is it a good time—when you’re feeling festive? – Rosanne Barr
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. – Francis Bacon
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles Schultz
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu
“To remember is to understand. I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a good lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.” – Anna Quindlen – THINKING OUT LOUD
If I could have lived my life over, I would have talked less and listened more. – Erma Bombeck
Family faces are like magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us—we see the past, the present and the future. – Gail Lumel Buckley
FAMILY - 6
“Children, be obedient to your parents in union with the Lord, for this is righteous.” – Apostle Paul – Eph. 6:1 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
When I was young I was kidnapped. My parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. – Woody Allen
“Look! Our son if gifted! In skipping!” We snickered like idiots for a while because he isjust so funny. When we laugh we feel better about the future.” – (Young Gus has Asperger’s Syndrome) – Judith Newman – READER’S DIGEST
I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney
“I know a way out of hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one.” – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI –John Briley (Screenplay)
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. – Lily Tomlin
“Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence, get me back. Get me back. I don’t care what happens to me. Get me back to my wife and kids. Help me, Clarence, please, Please! I want to live again! I want to live again! Please, God, let me live again.” – George Bailey (James Stewart) contemplating suicide, praying at the bridge to Clarence, his guardian angel. - IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE - 1946
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – Gary Pulliam
Neurotics build castles in the air; psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. – Rita Rudner
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket, and then give him only two of them. – Phil Pastoret
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, even though her heart is breaking. – Helen Steiner Rice
“Western civilization took centuries to develop the idea of CHILDREN. But television has erased it in a few decades. What a child once learned through reading was roughly commensurate with his ability to process the information. In the television age, however, we all get the same messages. A child of five and an adult of forty can see the same images and hear the same words simply by pushing a button. It shows in our behavior. Children and adult now dress alike, talk alike and play the same games. The concept of childhood is vanishing.” – John Corry – MY TIMES
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them – Desmond Tutu
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth or privilege. – Charles Kuralt
FAMILY - 7
“No greater joy do I have than this; that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth.” – Apostle John – 3 John 3:4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“I simply want to tell you there are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father is one of them.” – Miss Maudie (neighbor) to Jem (Phillip Alford) – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Horton Foote (Screenplay)
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure that the taste is OK. – Danny (age 7)
“Any love that lasts becomes a LOVE STORY. A marriage, for example, is a shared story. The partners grow in love partly on the basis of shared memories, and partly on the conviction they are on the journey together. In having children, they bring them into the story and introduce them to the characters – aunts, uncles, and grandparents—who are already part of it. It is an expression of confidence that the story ought to be continued.” – William H. Kirkpatrick – WHY JOHNNY CAN’T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG
I’ve learned that I wish I could have told my Mom I love her one more time before she passed away. – Andy Rooney
Don’t wait for something outside yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nightengale
“If we overindulge our children, if we don’t make them learn how to wait their turn, delay gratification, and resist temptation, the neural changes that we associate with strong character may not take place.” – Dr. Dan Kindlon – TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING—RAISING CHILDREN OF CHARACTER IN AN INDULGENT AGE
Family is not the most important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
You want to destroy a family? Put something hurtful to a family member on social media. Then, even if you take it back, the damage may take years to repair because others may have taken sides. Think! – Gary Pulliam
"Even toddlers can start learning self-control. “If a child cries and cries for a piece of candy at the grocery store and you give it to her, you have just taught her that crying is an effective way to get what she wants. The next time she wants something, she will cry and whine because that worked last time. – Dr. Jean M. Twenge – GENERATION ME
“My mother never kissed me; she never put her arms around me and hugged me or told me she loved me. I spent my childhood in fear of her, hiding from her, avoiding her critical gaze.” – Roberta Satow – DOING THE RIGHT THING: TAKING CARE OF YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T TAKE CARE OF YOU
FAMILY - 8
Talking to some kids is like trying to put socks on an octopus. – Personal experience
Loneliness at its worse is when those closest to you cease communicating with you for unknown reasons. – Gary Pulliam
The one who loves least controls the relationship. – Unknown
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
