Family Quotes · Page 7

Honor the people who shaped you with heartfelt family quotes about love, belonging, and the ties that bind. Perfect for sharing at gatherings or simply to say "I love you."

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“Gaze on the child who holds your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace!”

— Epic of Gilgamesh

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.”

— George Eliot

“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.”

— George Eliot

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

— The Gospel of Matthew

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

— The Gospel of Matthew

“Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”

— The Gospel of Matthew

“The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.”

— Anthony Trollope

“And hie him home, at evening's close, / To sweet repast and calm repose.”

— Thomas Gray

“Next year we shall be living in a country / That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.”

— Philip Larkin

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back.”

— Philip Larkin

“He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”

— William Blake

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Children have more need of models than of critics.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

— The Book of Proverbs

“Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.”

— Paul the Apostle

“I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use.”

— George MacDonald

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves.”

— Louis Pasteur

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a…”

— Thomas Szasz

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

— William Shakespeare

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