~Sayings and Quotes~
family, grandparent quotes, mothers, fathers, love, children, proverbs,

I thought that I would add this for all those crafters, scrapbookers and card makers out there like me who have a hard time finding that perfect thing to say in a card or scrapbook.

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Family

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. 
Anthony Brandt

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

Family:  A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. 
Evan Esar

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. 
Author Unknown

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

A brother is a friend provided by nature.
Legouve Pere

Each day of our lives we make deposits
in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down
usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~ John Wilmot

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
~ Bill Cosby

Becoming a father isn't difficult,
But it's very difficult to be a father.
~ Wilhelm Busch, Julchen (1877)

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Harry S Truman:

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
--Wayne H.

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