Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

The whole world is my family.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

This grossness, physical love, which is actually the biological cooling system, is very essential. The prana feeds the tattvas and the tattvas create the rasa. Rasa means juices. The juices circulate and in that circulation the glandular system works and involves itself. And there's a place to bring it all to harmony.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

Time and space cannot play any part between two loving hearts.

Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.