Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

You understand, as I do, that wealth and family mean nothing if a person is not willing to prove his full worth.

You've given me a bad name I'll only make worse.

You’ve always been my summer.”, Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

You underestimate us, Josephine,” Taylor smiled. “A few guards, chains, and a locked door can’t keep a family apart.

You want a happy family?" "I'd love a miserable one where everyone hated each other." "Why?" "So we could find redemption in each other's arms.

You’ve spent her whole life holding her. Whether cradled in your arms as a baby or wrapped in your embrace as a young woman, she’s been yours to have and to hold, Mother of the Bride—until now. Now the time has come to let her go, to let her begin her own family and pledge her allegiance to another.

You weren't the perfect father but that's okay because -- probably nobody's a perfect father. No family's perfect, either. I was lucky. I was privileged. Not because of the big house and the money, but because you gave me a lot of yourself. You taught me, you showed me, you encouraged me -- you never lied to me and you never demanded that I be anything I’m not. I didn’t imitate you because you insisted that I do so, but because I wanted to. Of all the men I knew, you were most worthy of imitation. Then I blamed you for letting me be who I was. Pretty dumb. You and Alfred gave me a home and you gave me what we don't mention. The L word. You were the best family I could have had. Thanks.

You were born of two flawed yet beautiful souls. Happiness is your birthright, and love is your guide.

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.

Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle body. We amalgamate with each other. That is real love.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Aim high, work hard, and love your family.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.