Top 98 Family Quotes

A hand-organized collection of 98 family quotes from notable authors and thinkers. Browse the full set, find the lines that resonate, and turn any quote into a shareable image.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
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Go Big, or Go Home.
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
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Play is the work of childhood.
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
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Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to "make things" work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.
Gary Cardone
Gary Cardone
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Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.
John Denver
John Denver
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
Haim G. Ginott
Haim G. Ginott
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Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke
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A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?
Kelsey Kennedy
Kelsey Kennedy
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Every war is a war against children.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
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Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
Ram Brown
Ram Brown
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Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man.
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier
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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Cesar Vallejo quote
Cesar Vallejo quote
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I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
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Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges
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We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerome S. Bruner
Jerome S. Bruner
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The home is the child's first school. the parent is the child's first teacher. and reading is the child's first subject.
lorraine han
lorraine han
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Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.
David Fincher
David Fincher
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The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Garrett McCullough
Garrett McCullough
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Natalie DeCamillo
Natalie DeCamillo
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Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury: the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.
Roy Bahbazi Jannsen
Roy Bahbazi Jannsen
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Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead of consumers of computer science.
Mona Klawe
Mona Klawe
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Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.
Kevin Heath
Kevin Heath
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A misbehaving child is a discouraged child.
Rudolf Dreikurs
Rudolf Dreikurs
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
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With languages, you are at home anywhere.
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal
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Once you accept your children's basic nature you can contour your style to meet their temperament. To do so means letting go of your fantasies of yourself as a certain kind of parent and instead evolving into the parent you need to be for the particular child in front of you.
Chika Daley
Chika Daley
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As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God. Because He was my friend. But then instead of leaving Him in peace to work alone, I hung around and tried to help. With ways that were my own. At last I snatched them back and cried, "How can you be so slow?" My child," He said, "What could I do? You never did let go.
Unknown
Unknown
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I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.
Sinead O'Connor
Sinead O'Connor
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Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.
Anne Geddes
Anne Geddes
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Belajar menulis adalah belajar menangkap momen kehidupan dengan penghayatan paling total yang paling mungkin dilakukan oleh manusia.
Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Seno Gumira Ajidarma
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Geography is the study of earth as the home of people.
Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan
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Curriculum should help children gain a deeper and fuller understanding of their own experiences.
Lilian Katz
Lilian Katz
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My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.
Basheer Ibn Saud Al Saud
Basheer Ibn Saud Al Saud
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It's the family you choose that counts.
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss
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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
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I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.
Zach Trifft
Zach Trifft
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral
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Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight.
Mona Fox
Mona Fox
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Matthew 28:19-20, "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." The imperative in those verses is "go." But as we go, there are several sub-commands. We are to make disciples. We are to baptize. We are to teach.
Unknown
Unknown
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Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer
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There is no law so obscene that the police would not be willing to enforce it, up to and including the mass execution of innocent children." - Michael Malice on The Waco Siege, Twitter, 2021.
Michael Malice
Michael Malice
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