Quotes by Family I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Barbara Bush family important thinking To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Barbara Bush family inspirational mean If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. Barbara Coloroso family teacher inspirational The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids. Barbara Coloroso family kids children Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver mothers-day family inspiring Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. Barbara Kingsolver code frustrating family The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival. Barbara Mikulski symbols family survival [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air. Barbara Neely family secret air Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. Barbara Walters family inspirational children No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family. Barbra Streisand conform family should-have The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home. Barry Gibb family secret home I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe. Belle S. Spafford family home thinking Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all. Belva Plain family grief blood Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin funny-love marriage family He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Benjamin Franklin family sorrow life Families ought to be noisy. Benjamin Franklin noisy ought family And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected. Benjamin Franklin family men children Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock trust family positive No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Bernard Williams family girl dog Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate. Berton Braley family dog boys «23456789101112»