Family Quotes — Page 26

Zen Master, Author

“If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?”

Looks Community Family

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Francis Thompson

Poet

“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”

Mother Family Loneliness

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.”

Children Marriage

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

Inspirational Brother

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.”

Important Funny Family

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosopher

“Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.”

Children Freedom Family

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.”

Thinking Home Family

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Golda Meir

Politician

“Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.”

Children Family Mothers Day

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Norman Ralph Augustine

Business Executive

“Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."”

Technology Daughter Family

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