Phyllis Diller Quote – The First Twelve Months
“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.” – Phyllis Diller
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Friends will come and go but family remains forever
“Friends will come and go but family remains forever.”
Read moreWilliam D. Tammeus Quote – Human Nature
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus
Read moreGloria Steinem Quote – The Personal Is Political
“We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and international stage—-Changing the way […]
Read moreAnthony Brandt Quote – We Start And End With Family
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt
Read moreCatherine M. Wallace Quote – Listen Earnestly To Your Children
“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.” ― Catherine M. Wallace
Read moreFran Lebowitz Quote – Only If He’s Buying
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” – Fran Lebowitz
Read moreLouise Hart Quote – Our Children
“Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had.” – Louise Hart
Read morePope John Paul II Quote – Domestic Church
“Catholic parents must learn to form their family as a “domestic church,” a church in the home as it were, where God is honored, his law is respected, prayer is a normal event, virtue is transmitted by word and example, and everyone shares the hopes, the problems and sufferings of everyone else. All this is not to advocate a return […]
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