Happy Family Quotes
Happy Quotes about Family

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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

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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business
in which no cumulative wisdom is gained:
each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Bill Cosby

 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools,
but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
- Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice,
they're interested in peace and quiet.
- Bill Cosby

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You know the only people who are always sure about
the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
- Bill Cosby

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

No matter how calmly you try to referee,
parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior,
and I'm not talking about the kids.
Their behavior is always normal.
- Bill Cosby

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous

That married couples can live together day after day
is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
- Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children
is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia:
it seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Bill Cosby

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

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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

Poets have said that the reason to have children is
to give yourself immortality.
Immortality? Now that I have five children,
my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
- Bill Cosby

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing separates the generations more than music.
By the time a child is eight or nine,
he has developed a passion for his own music that is
even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
- Bill Cosby

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

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu

You are my Family
- Karen Drucker

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- 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

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa

The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns

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

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon

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

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

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

There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie