family

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• marriage
• parents
• parenthood
• misc

children

• You can learn many things from children. how much patience you have, for instance.
  --- Franklin P. Jones

• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. On eof these is roots; the other, wings.
  --- Hodding Carter

• You now children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
  --- John J. Plomp

• Remember when your mother used to say, “Go to your room -”? This was a terrible penalty. Now when a mother says the same thing, a kid goes to his room. There he’s got an air-conditioner, a TV set, an intercom, a shortwave radio - he’s better off than he was in the first place.
  --- Sam Levenson

• A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out a a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
  --- Norman Doublas

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

• You are to have as strict as guard upon yourself amongst your children, as if you were amongst your enemies.
  --- Lord Halifax (George Savile)

• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.
  --- John Mason Brown

• Be ever gentle with the children God has given you. Watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger.
  --- Elihu Burritt

• Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
  --- Colossians 3:20

• Children have more need of models than critics
  --- Jospeh Joubart

• The best thing to spend on children is your time.
  --- Arnold Glasow

marriage

• All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and especially so is in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
  --- Richard L. Evans

• It is not good that man should be alone
  --- Genesis 2:18

• Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
  --- 1 Corinthians 11:11

parents

• I have commanded you to bring your children in light and truth.
  --- DC 93:40

• Parents have a duty to govern their children. But the object of all good government is to prepare the subject for self-government.
  --- Dr. Lyman Abbott

• The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced you usually are unemployed

• Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, contradicting them. make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me.
  --- Gary Cleveland Myers fathers>

• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother

• It is sobering when a father sees in his son himself, his mannerisms, his ways, his words. It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he, or reaches farther. It is a blessed thing for fathers to see their sons exceed them.
  --- Richard L. Evans

• A father will do well, as his son grows up ... to talk familiarly with him; ... The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one: and if you admit him into serious discourses... with you, you will... raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in ... Nothing commits and establishes friendship and goodwill so much as confident communication... When your son sees you open your mind to him [he will know he has] a friend and... a father
  --- John Locke

• You may have tangible wealth untold;
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be -
  I had a mother who read to me
  --- Strickland Gillilian

• I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
  --- Abraham Lincoln

• Do you expect, forsooth, that mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

parenthood

• Children have more need of models than of critics.
  --- Joseph Joubert

• The best thing to spend on children is your time.
  --- Arnold Glasow

• Parents have a duty to govern their children. But the object of all good government is to prepare the subject for self-government.
  --- Dr. Lyman Abott

• If I were to asked to name the world's greatest need, I should say, unhesitatingly; wise mothers and… exemplary fathers.
  --- David O. McKay

• You can learn many things from children. how much patience you have, for instance.
  --- Franklin P. Jones

• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.
  ---Hodding Carter

• Remember when your mother used to say, "Go to your room -"? This was a terrible penalty. Now when a mother says the same thing, a kid goes to his room. There he's got an air-conditioner, a TV set, an intercom, a shortwave radio - he's better off than he was in the first place.
  --- Sam Levenson

• A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out a a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
  --- Norman Doublas

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

• You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
  --- John J. Plomp

• You are to have as strict as guard upon yourself amongst your children, as if you were amongst your enemies.
  --- Lord Halifax (George Savile)

• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
  --- John Mason Brown

• Be ever gentle with the children God has given you. Watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger.
  --- Elihu Burritt

• Parents have a duty to govern their children. But the object of all good government is to prepare the subject for self-government.
  --- Dr. Lyman Abbott

• The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced you usually are unemployed

• Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, contradicting them. make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me.
  --- Gary Cleveland Myers

misc

• The family is the nucleus of civilization
  --- Will and Ariel Durant

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• He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers
  --- Malachi 4:6

• A House is not a Home.
  --- Polly Adler

• The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
  --- Confucius

• No other success can compensate for failure in the home
  --- David O. McKay

• This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
  --- John Ruskin

last updated: April 8