Family Quotes

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

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.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

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

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

My family was my guide to my reality.

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

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Children are the keys of paradise.

My family is more important than my party.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

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

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

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

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

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

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'