Quotes and sayings about tag  family

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

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• Books

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

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• Humor

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

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• Humor

I sustain myself with the love of family.

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• Inspirational

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

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• Love

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

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• Life

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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• Love

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

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• Relationships

Writers will happen in the best of families.

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• Writing

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

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• Humor

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

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• Motivational

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

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• Love

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

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• Humor

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

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• Humor

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

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• Love