Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Family

Family

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
Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.--Thomas Jefferson
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.--Pope John Paul II
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.--Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)
The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the "love account."--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.--Milton R. Sapirstein (Paradoxes of Everyday Life)
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.--Dr. Roger MacDonald (A County Doctor's Casebook)
Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.--Chuck Swindoll
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves.--Gail Lumet Buckley
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.--Gilbert Keith Chesterton ("Dramatic Unities", Fancies versus Fads)
The family--that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.--Dodie Smith
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.--Virginia Satir
God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our facilities to extended enterprise and exertion; and to living round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts.--Mary Botham Howitt
Healthy families are our greatest national resource.--Dorothy Curran (Traits of a Healthy Family)
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.--Jimmy Buffet (A Pirate Looks At 50)
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.--Rose Kennedy
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them . . . work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls . . . family, health, friends and spirit . . . are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.--Author Unknown
Love within a family is unconditional, and this kind of environment is necessary not only for children but also for adults who need a space of healing from wounds inflicted in the marketplace.--Joan Mueller (Living a Spirituality of Action: A Woman's Perspective)
The merry family gatherings--
The old, the very young
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.

For Christmas is tradition time--
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.--Helen Lowrie Marshall
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.--G. K. Chesterton
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," my dad would reply, "we're raising boys."--Harmon Killebrew
A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.--Randy Pausch
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.--Mother Theresa
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.--Jean Illsley Clarke (Self-Esteem: A Family Affair)