QUOTATIONS: FAMILY

Updated February 15, 2000
"Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope." -Nicholas Nickleby

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." -Mark Twain

"...the daughter never gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie here so strong that nothing can break it. I call it 'the unbreakable bond.'" -Rachel Billington

"My mother raised me, and then freed me." -Maya Angelou

"A daughter and her mother are never free of one another- no matter how they disagree. For they are so entwined in heart and mind that, gladly or unwillingly, they share each love, each joy, each sorrow and each bitter wrong life-long." -Pam Brown

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." -Aristotle

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family." -Mother Teresa

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." -Kathy Davis

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