Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

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 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.

Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

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

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 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.

When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.

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 look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.

Why did I adopt kids? I dunno. Let me look at my family: religious weirdo, gun nut, biker, boozer, dead tooth, too many cats, the guy who talks to his truck. Hmm. Maybe I adopted because genetically my balls are full of poison.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

With all my fans I got a family again.