Sayings | Quotes

Father quotes, mother quotes, brother quotes, sister quotes, grandfather quotes, grandmother quotes, husband quotes, wife quotes, even cousin quotes, we have done it all. Now I have for you some family quotes. It is said that we chose our friends, but our families are thrust upon us. But then we are family and we need to stick together as they saying goes.

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” ~Johann Schiller

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ~Jane Howard

“A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.” ~ Helen Keller

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.” ~Margaret Mead

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ~Michael Levine

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ~ Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.” ~Ashleigh Brilliant

“Families are like fudge… mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ~ Unknown

“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”~ Elizabeth II

“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”~ Gail Lumet Buckley

“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.” ~ Marsha Norman

“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” ~Ogden Nash

“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry

“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” ~Joyce Brothers

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~Desmond Tutu

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” ~Gail Lumet Buckley

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ William Shakespeare

More William Shakespeare Quotes.

Not that you would have to talk on some graduation ceremony often, but who knows? You just might, some day. Nevertheless, we can have many uses of graduation sayings and graduation quotes. When your brother or sister is graduating, or your friends, you don’t want to send the same quote to everyone. Or have you stopped sending those greeting cards altogether, with those cute graduation quotes on the occasion of their graduation?

Here are some of my favorite graduation quotes:

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ”

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”

“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“Borrowing a word from Aristotle, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ”

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ”

“All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.”

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.”

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ”

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!”

“Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

And on business by ford, “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ”

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

I love this saying, “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ”

“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. ”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.”

“Pride, envy, avarice — these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.”

“Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.”

“When pride thaws, look for floods.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ”

“Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ”

“Pride the first peer and president of hell.”

“Who would not rather trust and be deceived?”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

“Trust is like a vase.. once it’s broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. ”

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ”

“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. ”

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ”

“We live in a rainbow of chaos. ”

” All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. ”

“Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”

“Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.”

“Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.”
” I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”

” Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Art is our memory of love. The most an artist can do through their work is say, let me show you what I have seen, what I have loved, and perhaps you will see it and love it too.”

” A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”

“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.”