Family Day Quotes and Sayings

"We all grow up with the weight of history on us.  Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of  knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies...!!!"

Arthur: Shirley Abbott...!!!

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"He who is overly attached to his FAMILY members experiences fear & sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy...!!!"

Arthur: Chanakya ... !!!

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"I will not stand idly by while U abrogate my plans! U shall rue this day...!!! Well, go on, start ruing...!!!"

Arthur: Stewie...!!!

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"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair...!!!"

Arthur: Mitch Albom...!!!

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"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by U without flinching they are U'r FAMILY...!!!"

Arthur: Jim Butcher...!!!

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"FAMILY is the most important thing in the world...!!!"

Arthur: Princess Diana...!!!

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"Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal service worse than this...!!!"

Arthur: Samuel Butler...!!!

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"In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry...!!!"

Arthur: Margaret Laurence...!!!

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"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves & realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, & if U act within the parameters of U'r role, the whole pack succeeds, & when that falls apart, so does the pack...!!!"

Arthur: Jodi Picoult...!!!"

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"I'd like to put video cameras in every room of U'r house so that I can observe U'r uncensored behavior. Peter: Wow, just like that show Big Brother...except somebody-ll be watching...!!!

Arthur: Counselor...!!!

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"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming & killing to a minimum...!!!"

Arthur: Rick Riordan...!!!

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"Spare the rod & spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well...!!!"

Arthur: Martin Luther...!!!

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"Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a FAMILY. Having both is a blessing...!!!"

Arthur: Donna Hedges...!!!

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"Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it...!!!"

Arthur: Lord Chesterfield...!!!

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"FAMILY quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb U climb out on will still be there later for U to climb back...!!!"

Arthur: Mignon McLaughli...!!!"

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"Good, I don't have to cook. Peter: Oh, no, go ahead & cook anyway, Lois, & well throw it out. I don't want U to get rusty...!!!"

Arthur: FAMILY Guy...!!!

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"Parents are like GOD because U wanna know they're out there, & U want them to think well of you, but U really only call when U need something...!!!"

Arthur: Chuck Palahniuk ... !!!

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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a FAMILY: Whatever U call it, whoever U are, U need one...!!!"

Arthur: Jane Howard...!!!

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"FAMILY faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, & future...!!!"

Arthur: Gail Lumet Buckley...!!!

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"Twenty thousand years ago the FAMILY was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other...!!!"

Arthur: H-Compton...!!!

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"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them...!!!"

Arthur: George Bernard Shaw...!!!

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"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that U can't give up on U'r FAMILY, no matter how tempting they make it...!!!"

Arthur: Rick Riordan...!!!

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"The bond that links U'r true FAMILY is not one of blood, but of respect & joy in each other’s life...!!!"

Arthur: Richard Bach...!!!

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"A man should never neglect his FAMILY for business...!!!"

Arthur: Walt Disney...!!!

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"The graveyards are full of women whose houses were so spotless U could eat off the floor. Remember, the second wife always has a maid...!!!

Arthur: Heloise Cruise...!!!

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"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for FAMILY.  Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a FAMILY member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our FAMILY for granted...!!!"

Arthur: Paul Pearshall...!!!

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"One's FAMILY is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. & the only people who'll be with me will be my FAMILY...!!!"

Arthur: Robert Byrd...!!!

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"We automatically expect our FAMILY members & closest friends to be here when we wake up every morning to start our day. Don't take one single person for granted. If U love them, tell them...show them...!!!"

Arthur: Haim...!!!

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"You must remember, FAMILY is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. FAMILY members can be your best friends, U know. & best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be U'r FAMILY...!!!"

Arthur: Trenton Lee Stewart...!!!

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"My FAMILY comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys...!!!"

Arthur: Bobby Darin ... !!!

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"Some people are U'r relatives but others are U'r ancestors, & U choose the ones U want to have as ancestors. U create yourself out of those values...!!!"

Arthur: Ralph Ellison...!!!

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"Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a FAMILY. Having both is a blessing...!!!"

Arthur: Donna Hedges...!!!

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"I come from that society & there is a common thread, specifically FAMILY values the idea that U do anything for U'r FAMILY, & the unconditional love for one's children...!!!"

Arthur: Ednita Nazario ... !!!

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"When U'r mother asks, "Do U want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if U answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway...!!! 

Arthur: Erma Bombeck...!!!

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"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only & that is to support the ultimate career...!!!"

Arthur: C.S-Lewis...!!!

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"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions & my mother's contempt for my father...!!!"

Arthur: Jules Feiffer...!!!3

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