Family

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood but also for those whom we'd give blood." - Charles Dickens ...

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

“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 ...

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”                 ― Pope John Paul II ...

"Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew." - Alice Miller ...

"The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane." - Donald G. Smith ...

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” - Fran Lebowitz ...

"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 ...

“You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.” - Franklin P. Jones ...

"Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had." - Louise Hart ...