Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

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

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

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

I do come from a strong family.

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 don't think anyone has a normal family.

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

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.