Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a man without God. And coziness is the relationship between you and your purity, your piety and your principles to which you have agreed.

... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.