Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Best things in life aren't things.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.