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Category: Family and Loneliness

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1. "Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have."

Fred G. Gosman, "How to Be a Happy Parent..."

2. "The mortgage is still in our name but, increasingly, the house is theirs. One diaper, one vote."

Fred G. Gosman, "How to Be a Happy Parent..."

3. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Love -:- Woman and Man

4. "The house with no child in it is a house with nothing in it."

Welsh proverb

5. "In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship."

Jean Marzollo, "Your Maternity Leave"

Quotations about: Marriage

6. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Love -:- Education

7. "Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."

Roseanne Barr

8. "Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

Margaret Mead

9. "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

Quotations about: Youth and Age

10. "The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed."

Anon.

11. "A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

Anon.

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

12. "Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Quotations about: Various

13. "There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Quotations about: Marriage

14. "A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

15. "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined."

John Abbott, "The Mother at Home"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

16. "A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Egoism

17. "Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

18. "The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved."

Stephanie Martson, "The Magic of Encouragement"

19. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Denis Waitly

Quotations about: Youth and Age -:- Education

20. "This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle

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21. "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."

Jane Howard, "Families"

22. "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

Bill Cosby

23. "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

Leo J. Burke

24. "A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."

Henry Louis Mencken

25. "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."

Dorothy Parker

26. "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Richness and Money

27. "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests."

Spanish proverb

28. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "Children are ambassadors from another dimension and should be treated with diplomatic courtesy."

Irving Fiske

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

30. "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

31. "If you take your kids too seriously, they'll drive you to drinking. If you don't take them seriously enough, you'll drive them to drinking."

Stephen Covington

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

32. "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

33. "Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."

Jorge Luis Borges

Quotations about: Love

34. "Home is not where you live but where they understand you."

Christian Morgenstern

35. "Children are our most valuable natural resource."

Herbert Hoover

36. "When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses."

Joyce Brothers

Quotations about: Happiness

37. "A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Quotations about: Human

38. "I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."

Pearl Buck

Quotations about: Various

39. "If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion."

Ashleigh Brilliant

40. "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Life and Death

41. "Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he find his alternative lie in loneliness, destruction and despair."

Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about: Love

42. "Each day, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Let us strive to make the finest investment we can."

Charles Swindoll

Quotations about: Memory -:- Youth and Age

43. "Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Science and Technology

44. "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

Desmond Tutu

45. "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

Barbara Kingsolver

46. "A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

Charles Swindoll

47. "I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week."

Erma Bombeck

Quotations about: Time and Passing

48. "If evolution was true, mothers would have more than two hands."

Anon.

49. "The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Eric Hoffer

50. "If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

Bette Davis

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