Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

One ought to be just before one is generous

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.