Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

God lives in cozy homes. Happiness, which a cozy home can give you, is so divine on this Earth, you don't need anything more than that. God is unseen but His creation is known and seen. What is known and seen for you, if you cannot relate to that how can you relate to the unknown? If you can relate knowingly to your unknown thought, you can always find happiness. But you have to have nerves for it. You have to have a mental capacity for it, you have to have trained yourself, and this is the part of that training I have come to share with you.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

I am an only child. I have one sister.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.