Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Loving and Living in Harmony with Family

Sayings and Proverbs about the Family

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- John Bowring

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- William J. Durant

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.
- Marmontel Gretry

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
- Valerie Solanis

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
- Martin Mull

A small family is soon provided for.
- English Proverb

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
- W. S. Gilbert

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
- George Santayana

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
- Felix Adler

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
- Buddy Hackett

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
- Sandra Day O'Connor

"In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And his children will have refuge. " -Proverbs 14:26

"Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred. "- Proverbs 15:17

"The glory of young men is their strength, And the honor of old men is their gray hair. "- Proverbs 20:29

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." -Sophocles

“There is no such thing as fun for all the family.” -Jerry Seinfeld

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.” -Joyce Carol Oates

“A man is his own best ancestor.” -Emperor Tiberius
“You live as long as you are remembered.” -Russian proverb

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart. -Proverbs 11:29

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." -Proverbs 22:6

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