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“You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.”

Children Turns Responsibility Family Teaching Percent Responsible Our Children Accomplish Your Children

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”

Years Doe Home Turns Family Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Does my Bum Look Big in This?

Source: Does my Bum Look Big in This?

“Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.”

Romance Turns Family

Author:Mason Cooley

“I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'”

Inspirational Motivational Kids Turns Family Mom Bedroom

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”

“We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.”

Done Turns Father Sides Family Tree Gay Our Family Quarters

Author:Brian Posehn

“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”

Mother Turns Understanding Compassion Family Mom Judgment Being A Mom Mothering Great Mother Mothers Day Inspirational Judgment Of Others Joys Of Motherhood Becoming A Mother Understanding And Compassion Becoming A Mom

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”

Knows Used Mother Turns Social Family Instinct Constructs

Book:Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

“There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.”

Wells Turns Strong Parent Chance Family Sibling

Author:Robert Breault

“When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.”

Feels Heart Turns Family Greater Connections Ancestor Yearning Fulfilled Linked Things Change Family Connections

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.”

“In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.”

Turns Left My Own Family My Family Debate Pace Opinionated

Author:Akira Mori

“Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."”

Trying Problem Light Turns Causes Cities Family Technology Solutions Daughter Green Driving Our Family Maps Logical My Daughter Traffic Observing Avoided Unfamiliar Traffic Light

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine