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Quotes About Responsibility

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
~ Pope John Paul II
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
~ Richard Bach
The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they reflect -- is to begin with those to whom we owe the greatest responsibility -- those whom we most value -- our kids. Let's not just talk about it -- let's put kids first.
~ Senator John Kerry
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
~ Margaret Mead
A bad father has never a good son
~ Latin proverb
A greedy father has thieves for children
~ Serbian Proverb
Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough
~ Wilhelm Busch
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
~ Unknown
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
~ Thomas Fuller
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
~ Unknown
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Spend time with your families.
~ Colin Powell
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently
~ Chinese proverb
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf
~ Bertrand Russell
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.
~ Unknown
The family is the school of duties - founded on love
~ Felix Adler
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
~ Nicholas Sparks
How can we teach family values when its more than obvious by the legacy left behind families stopped valueing it self.
~ Unknown
Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.
~ Unknown
A person's First Obligation Should Be To Help The Member Of His Own Family Before He Can Begin Thinking Of Talking About Helping Others. Remember, Charity Begins At Home.
~ Unknown
When it comes to serving family, there shouldn't be any excuse.
~ Terry Mark