Family Quote by William J Doherty Download Open image “A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.” — William J Doherty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Want
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share
The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Families – can’t live with them – can’t take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The behavior of some children suggests that their parents embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives. — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together. — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5%… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image