My Family Quotes

Sometimes family is just not what you were born into.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

It ain't locked, till it's checked!

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.

Let's not become too busy to keep in touch with those who really matter most and need us. Life's short but let's make an indelible purposeful and powerful impact with it

If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.

In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.

Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.

The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Children are the bridge to heaven.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

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