Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

Find friends and not lovers; you will win the game of life.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values - or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be - to be through her son, to live through her son.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

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.

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

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

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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