Cornerstones

Various, Contributors

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4 (KJV)

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver

I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing.
Jim Gaffigan

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

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.
Maya Angelou

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any “Good Old Days,” there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, “Don’t look at me. I just got here myself.”
Kurt Vonnegut

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

We must take care of our families wherever we find them.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
Albert Einstein

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Jerry Seinfeld

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston Churchill

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Ann Brashares

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