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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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