Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.

...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.