Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

Isn't she lovely made from love?

I stay in tune with my family and God.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is a place where there is a unity in all those who live there, an understanding in all those who relate to it. There is a will to sacrifice for each other; there is a will to live for each other; there is a will to protect each other.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.