This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Monday, December 15, 2008

Family Quotes

1. First, responsibility should always begin at home. The most important job we will ever have is being a parent or a grandparent. What happens in your house is more important that what happens in the White House. - Barbara Bush

2. Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson

3. Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. - Milton R. Saperstein

4. Forget the dishes, the laundry and the unmade beds, and try to remember that your most important job is that of being a parent. Turn off the television. Sit down to dinner. Talk to your children, put your arms around them and read together. - Barbara Bush

5. The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. - Bill Cosby

6. The surest way to make it hard for children is to make it easy for them. - Eleanor Roosevelt

7. The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. - J. E. McCullouch

8. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr.

9. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.  - Thomas Jefferson

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