QUOTATIONS  ON  FAMILY  AND  CHILDREN

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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