Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

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

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.

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

To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.

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 each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion.  In telling your story.  In authenticity, hustle, and patience.  In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff.  In valuing legacy over currency.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

We could not be happier.

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.