QUOTATIONS
ON FAMILY AND CHILDREN |
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1. Children have more need of models than of critics. Joseph Joubert 2. No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Bern Williams 3. The family is the natural and fundamental group-unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and state. Uni. Decl. Human Rights 4. There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot 5. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. T. M. Hesburgh 6. A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection when it comes,- and it will come - may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. Jane Smiley 7. Human instincts are hard-wired programming. William Rotsler 8. Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Socrates 9. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance. H. Jackson Brown 10. Truth has to fall on fertile soil. Paula D'Arcy 11. The best security blanket a child can have is, parents who respect each other. Jan Blaustone 12. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do, if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay 13. One is not born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul 14. What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. James Q. Wilson 15. A friend was in the hospital giving birth to her first child. As her labour intensified and the pangs came with increasing frequency, she pantingly asked the midwife, "is the worst over yet ? " "My dear woman", the midwife replied, "the worst is yet to come, and will last 18 years." Read. Digest Oct. 1995 16. The most absolute dictator's power is not as great as a typical parent's power over a child. Anonymous 17. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb 18. Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learnt. Ronald Rood 19. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. www.yuwie.com 20. Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half sorrow. Swedish proverb 21. Character is what you are willing to do when the spotlight has been turned off, the applause has died down and no one is around to give you credit. Ann Landers 22. Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. Crystal Middlemas 23. A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. Chinese proverb 24. God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. James P.D. 25. Five thousand years ago, what I am saying was right. In five thousand years what I am saying will still be right : cleanliness, honesty, decency, respect for other people, politeness, good manners, integrity - they will never be old-fashioned. Charles Forte 26. Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hours of reason grows. John Betjeman 27. He who sings frightens away his ills. Cervantes 28. You never get over being a child as long as you have a mother to go to. Sarah Jewett 29. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius 30. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke 31. Living a familial life itself is enough, to be normal and social. Breaking familial relationships can be breaking channels of communications, learning, love, support and sharing. Anonymous 32. No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focussed, dedicated and disciplined. Harry E. Fosdick 33. A loud voice can not compete with a clear voice, even if it is a whisper. Barry N. Kaufman 34. If there is a will, there is a way. Proverb 35. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Jefferson 36. If faced positively and calmly, family fights can be rewarding. Anonymous 37. Nature has always had more force than education. Voltaire 38. The quality of persons' lives is in direct proportion to their commitment and excellence, regardless of their chosen fields of endeavour. Vince Lombardi 39. To please the children I bought them a fishbowl containing two absolutely identical goldfishes. One day, my daughter got up and discovered one of the goldfishes floating at the surface of the water. She immediately alerted her little brother, "Michael, come and see, your goldfish is dead". Read.Dig. Oct. 1998 !! 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