Looking for a family and children scrabooking quote? (II)

Continued from previous post, for you :)

Alex Haley:
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Ariel and Will Durant:
The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Auguste Napier:
In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.

Barack Obama:
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

Ben Silliman:
American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.

Bertrand Russell:
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Carl Sandburg:
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Chinese Proverb:
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
- sometimes attributed to Confucius

Colette:
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Confucius:
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Eda LeShan:
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.

Elizabeth II:
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Elizabeth Stone:
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

Erma Bombeck:
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Evelyn Waugh:
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Francis Bacon:
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Francis Bacon:
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

George Bernard Shaw:
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw:
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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

George Santayana:
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Harry S Truman:
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Helen Keller:
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Isaac Rosenfeld:
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Jane Howard:
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jessamyn West:
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

John Donne:
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.