Family

“On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.”

–George Washington, 1st President of the United States of America

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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

1063 – “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

1061 – “A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”

761 – Washington on the State of the World and Its Future

760 – “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”

693 – “The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from, more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

485 – “Ohana means family, family means nobody get left behind or forgotten.”

392 – “Violent conflicts create zones of silence in a society. The deeds and responsibility of the perpetrators are concealed. Thus also the suffering of the victims, the role of the spectators… The silence is often passed on to the next generation.”

151 – “Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Everywhere around us, there are examples of people who are doing just that — who are celebrating the oneness of the human family.”

110 – “The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.”

72 – “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.”