Showing posts with label family quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family quotes. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Time is a rare luxury - Famous quote on care


"Time is a rare luxury which can never be purchased at any cost. So when someone spends it for you, it defines the depth of care they have for you."

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Famous Quotes on Children



"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
~Stacia Tauscher

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
~ Harold Hulbert

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
~ Franklin P. Jones

"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."
~ Unknown

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Famous Holiday quotes and sayings

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
~ Amanda Bradley

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
~ William James

"I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally."
~ Kylie Minogue

"To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance."
~ Philip Andrew Adams

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."
~ John B. Priestly

"Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday"
~ Roger Bannister

"No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday."
~ Erma Bombeck

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
~ Albert Camus

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to."
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Famous Father's Day Inspirational Quotes

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
~ Clarence Budington Kelland

"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
~ William Wordsworth

"One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters."
~ George Herbert

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown."
~ Unknown

"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!"
~ Philip Whitmore Snr

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
~ Jim Valvano

"Are we not like two volumes of one book?"
~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
~ Charles Wadworth

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
~ Jewish Proverb

Friday, May 22, 2009

Famous risk quotes and quotations

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
~ Isaac Newton

"In the long run, you only hit what you aim at."
~ Henry Thoreau

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
~ Dwight Eisenhower

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
~ Albert Einstein

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
~ Erica Jong

"When in doubt, do it."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
~ Andre Gide

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
~ Pablo Picasso

"To win you have to risk loss."
~ Jean-Claude Killy

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Famous Mother's Day quotes and sayings

"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."
~ T. DeWitt Talmage

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
~ Irish Proverb

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
~ Jewish Proverb

"On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other! "
~ Forest Houtenschil

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents."
~ John J. Plomp

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
~ Honore de Balzac

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
~ Henry Ward Beecher

"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive"
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest"
~ Spanish Proverb

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Winston Churchill famous quotes collection

Some of the famous quotes from Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Never, never, never give up.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Famous quotes on family

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann

In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
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