My Family Quotes
We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.
But it is. It’s something you need, and that’s a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we don’t need is a man who can’t let go of the useless baggage of his memories.
The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.
Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.
Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely
More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.
Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.
Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you.
We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.
No subject is closer to my heart than the family . . . The moral foundation of our country is in danger of crumbling as families break up and parents neglect their responsibilities.
A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.
It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.
God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.
We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories—and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.
Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.
Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.
Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.
So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.
Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.
The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.
...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.
Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.