Family Quotes - Page 16
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738
Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”
James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”
Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.10, Vintage
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)
Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.56, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.124, Open Road Media