"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family." Anita Baker
"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them." Gail Sweet
"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." Anonymous
"I’ve learned that…marriage is all about compromising and forgiving." Age 35
"I’ve learned that…children want discipline and guidelines because it shows you care." Age 32
"You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once." Polish Proverb
"I’ve learned that…there’s no greater resource when you’re a new mother than your mother." Age 29
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, tolerant with the weak, and forgiving with the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these." Lloyd Shearer
"Cherish your children for what they are, not for what you want them to be." Anonymous
"A happy home is a glimpse of heaven." Anonymous
"I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years." Rudolph Ray
"Remember that no one deserves your best behavior more than your family." Anonymous
"Let your children observe you being generous to those in need." Anonymous
"The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you." Kendall Hailey
"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves." Gail Lumet Buckley
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." Anthony Brandt in Esquire
"We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves." Henry Ward Beecher
"The family fireside is the best of schools." Arnold H. Glasgow
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." Theodore Hesburgh
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur." Alvin Toffler
"The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes." Joyce Maynard
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." John W. Whitehead
"Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society." Joan Ganz Cooney
"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation." C. Everett Koop, MD
"There are no seven wonders in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." Walt Streightiff
"A child is the root of the heart." Carolina Maria De Jesus
"The greatest aid to adult education is children." Charlie T. Jones and Bob Philips
"A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit." Rabelais
"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them." Frank A. Clark
"The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other." Jan Blaustone
"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." O.A. Battista
"I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it." Harry S. Truman
"If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself." Dorothy Law Nolte
"Parents need to fill a child’s self-esteem bucket so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes in it to drain it dry." Alvin Price
"Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow." Thomas Bray
"Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps." Joe Murray
"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse." Doug Larson
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage." Sydney J. Harris
"Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts." Roberta Flack
"A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum." Willard Scott
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." Simone Signoret
"Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The difference between courtship and marriage is the difference between the pictures in a seed catalogue and what comes up." James Wharton
"The greatest of all arts is the art of living together." William Lyon Phelps
"You don’t marry one person, you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to be as a result of being married to you." Richard Needham
"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." Robert C. Dodds
"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families." Charles Dickens
"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." Martin Luther
"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other the guardian of his solitude." Rainer Maria Rilke
"A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." Ogden Nash
"No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back." Margaret Mead
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." Annie Sullivan
"He is happiest, be king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Mid pleasures and places though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home." J. Howard Payne
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in awhile." Josh Billings
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members one family grow up under the same roof." Richard Bach
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." Jane Howard
"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy." Marie Curie
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