Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.- Michael Levine
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.- Christopher Lasch
We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.- Hafiz of Persia
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.- Oprah Winfrey
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.- Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.- Alice Miller
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.- John Kerry
The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.- Jennifer James
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.- Barack Obama
Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter. (preface, The Virginia House-Wife, 1824)- Mary Randolph
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.- Christopher Lasch
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.- Marilyn French
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.- Emma Thompson
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being "better," and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.- Sidonie Gruenberg
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.- Evelyn Waugh
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.- Carl Sandburg
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.- William Shakespeare
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.- George Bernard Shaw
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.- Margaret Mead
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.- Isaac Rosenfeld
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.- Leo Tolstoy
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.- John Donne
There was a time when ladies knew nothing, beyond their own family concerns; but in the present day there are many who know nothing about them. Each of these extremes should be avoided.
a mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning un-necessary. (d.c,fisher, american female novelist)
母亲不是赖以依靠的人，而是使依靠成为不必要的人。(美国女小说家 菲席尔.d.c.)
all happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (leo tolstoy ,russian writer)
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；而每个不幸的家庭各有各自的不幸。(俄国文学家 托尔斯泰.l.)
all i am , or can be, i owe to my angel mother. (abraham lincoln, american president)
我之所有，我之所能，都归功于我天使般的母亲。(美国总统林肯)
as a modern parent, i know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.a caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents. (o,hare noel, american writer)
作为一个现代的父母，我很清楚重要的不是你给了孩子们多少物质的东西，而是你倾注在他们身上的关心和爱。关心的态度不仅能帮你省下一笔可观的钱，而且甚至能使你感到一份欣慰，因为你花钱不多并且给予了胜过礼物的关怀。(美国作家 诺埃尔.o.)
be it ever so humble , there is no place like home. (john howard payne, averican drmatist and actor)
金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。(美国剧作家、演员佩恩. j. h.)
every soil where he is well, is to a valiand man his natural country. (masinger phililp, british dramatist)
勇敢的人随遇而安，所到之处都是故乡。(英国剧作家 菲利普.m.)
go where he will, the wise man is at home his harth the earth, his hall the azure dome. (r.w.emerson, american thinker)
明智者四海为家--地球是他的壁炉，蓝天是他的客厅。(美国思想家 爱默生.r.w.)
happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. (francis bacon, british philosopher)
幸福的家庭，父母靠慈爱当家，孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。(英国哲学家 培根.f.)
he is the happiest ,be he king or peasant , who finds peace in his home. (johann wolfgang von goethe, german dramstist and poet)
无论是国王还是农夫，家庭和睦是最幸福的。(德国剧作家、诗人歌德. j.w.)
home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (grorge bernard shaw, british dramstist)
家是姑娘的监狱，女人的教养院。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.g.)
home is the place where ,when you have to go there , it has to take you in. (frost robert, american poet)
无论何时何地家永远是向游子敞开大门的地方。(美国诗人 罗伯特.f.)
how sharper than a serpent's tooth is to have a thankless child. (william shakespeare, british dramatist)
逆子无情甚于蛇蝎。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚w.)
husbands and wives in the process of divorce (and those in the throes of another argument )easily fall into the trap of denigraging the other, publicly if possible, and as often as possible. (howards mel, american writer)
正在闹离婚的（包括那些处于吵闹不停的痛楚中的）夫妻们很容易陷在对方的泥沼中不能自拔， 这种诋毁是尽可能公开的，尽量频繁地进行。(美国作家 梅尔.h.)
i don'nt know who my grandfather was. i' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. (abraham lincoln, american president)
我不知道我爷爷是什么样的人，我更关心的是，他的孙子会成为什么样的人。(美国总统 林肯.a.)
if you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shouldres. (joh brnyan btitish ssayist)
你若希望你的孩子总是脚踏实地， 就要让他们负些责任。(英国散文家 班扬，j.)
it was the policy of the good old gentlemen to make his chileren feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and i value this delicious home---feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. (irvng washington, father of literature of the united states.)
让孩子感到家庭是世界上最幸福的地方，这是以往有涵养的大人明智的做法。这种美妙的家庭情感，在我看来，和大人赠给孩子们的.那些最精致的礼物一样珍贵。(美国文学之父 华盛顿. i.)
mariage may be compared to a cage:the birds outside deapair to get in and those within despair to get out. (michel de montaigne, french thinker and ssayist)
婚姻好比鸟笼，外面的鸟想进进不去；里面的鸟儿想出出不来。(法国思想家、散文家 蒙田.m.d.)
my father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep , and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. (ivy baker priest, american officer of government)
我父亲总是说，一个孩子需要四样东西--充分的爱、富于营养的食物、有规律的睡眠、大量的肥皂和水--这些完了呢，他最需要的是一些明智的放任。(美国政府官员 普里斯特.i.b.)
the brotherly spirit of science , which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade ,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. (franklin rosevelt, american president)
科学的博爱精神把分散在世界各地、各种热心科学的人联结成一个大家庭。(美国总统 罗斯。.f.)
the family is one of nature's masterpieses. (george santayana, american philosopher and poet)
家庭是大自然创造的杰作之一。(美国哲学家、诗人 桑塔亚那.g.)
the family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have. (d.herbert lawrence, british writer)
你将拥有的家庭比你出身的那个家庭重要。(英国作家劳伦斯.d.h.)
the fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (bretrand rrssell, british philosopher)
父亲们最根本的缺点在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。(英国哲学家 罗素.b.)
the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. (e.coke, british jutist)
每个人的家对他自己都像是城堡和要塞。(英国法学家 科克.e.)
the sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. (william john locke, british novelist)
越早把你的儿子当成男人，他就越早成为男人。(英国小说家 洛克.w.j.)
there is a skeleton in every house. (william makepeace thackeray, bdritish novelist)
家家都有一本难念的经。(英国小说家 萨克雷.w.m.)
to make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness. (grorge goreon byron, nritish poet)
要使婚姻长久，就需克服自我中心意识。(英国诗人 拜伦,g.g.)
we never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves. (henry ward beecher, american clergyman and orator)
不养儿不知父母恩(美国牧师、演说家 比沏.h.w.)
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.- Christopher Lasch
We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.- Hafiz of Persia
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.- Oprah Winfrey
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.- Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.- Alice Miller
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.- John Kerry
The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.- Jennifer James
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.- Barack Obama
Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter. (preface, The Virginia House-Wife, 1824)- Mary Randolph
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.- Christopher Lasch
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.- Marilyn French
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.- Emma Thompson
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being "better," and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.- Sidonie Gruenberg
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.- Evelyn Waugh
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.- Carl Sandburg
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.- William Shakespeare
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.- George Bernard Shaw
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.- Margaret Mead
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.- Isaac Rosenfeld
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.- Leo Tolstoy
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.- John Donne
There was a time when ladies knew nothing, beyond their own family concerns; but in the present day there are many who know nothing about them. Each of these extremes should be avoided.
