Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I am an only child. I have one sister.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I do come from a strong family.