Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

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

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

The fact is, if a person has not experienced the love of his or her soul, within one's self, there is no chance that that person can go out and love, even though it is a faculty of love that you most powerfully need.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.