Family Quotes — Page 23

Honore de Balzac

Novelist

“In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.”

Children Judging Family

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Barack Obama

Politician

“I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”

Children Heart Family

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Barbara Kingsolver

Author, Biologist

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

Inspiring Family

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John Oates

Musician

“I have a great family, I live an amazing life.”

Family Family Life

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Brock Chisholm

Psychiatrist

“...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.”

People Thinking Family

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”

God Family Meaningful

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Love Happiness Family

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Nelson Mandela

Political Leader

“I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.”

Fighting Opportunity Family

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Frank Smith

Author

“It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.”

Children Lying Family

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Henry Ford

Industrialist

“My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.”

Father Cancer Family

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John Donne

Poet, Cleric

“As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.”

Differences Doors Family

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Johnny Cash

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.”

Home Guitar Family

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