Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

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

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

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 am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

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.

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I do come from a strong family.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.