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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. ...
by Roe Fulkerson

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson

Related topics: Family Relationship Inspirational

In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus

 

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17

In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)

What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nobody has ever 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

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are my Family
- Karen Drucker

Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa

The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead

How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash

Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

When your whole family is loving and supportive, it is a great blessing.
But when family members are indifferent or hostile, release your expectations,
and find the love and support you need elsewhere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou

Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela


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