Family
154 quotes: 13 by Keith Craft, 141 from other voices.
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- Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
- Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.
- Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
- Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.
- Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.
- Family is not an important thing. It's everything.Michael J. FoxCommonly attributed
- Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
- Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
- Having a family wasn’t just about having someone care for you. It was caring for them.
- Home is heaven for beginners.Charles H. ParkhurstCommonly attributed
- Home is the grandest of all institutions.Charles H. SpurgeonCommonly attributed
- Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
- Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
- I don’t care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they’ve got to give something back.
- I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
- I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
- If a man himself do not walk in the right path, it will not be walked in even by his wife and children.
- If leaders were chosen in our day on the basis of their proved power to govern their own families in righteousness, how many would qualify?
- If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.Carl JungSourced
- If you don’t forgive your parents, you become them.
- If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
- If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
- If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
- If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
- In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
- In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.
- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
- Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
- It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- It is not How we leave our Children, but What we leave them.
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
- Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
- Kids spell love T-I-M-E.
- Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.