Quotes About Family

The members of the family are in distress, but the idols are worshipped.

We can laugh happily with our children, but not with money.

When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.

You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but Never Your WIFE

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.

Sooner or later, her daughter would find out for herself what it meant to live in a world that pulled the plug on the Van Peebleses.

I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.

Sorprende y admira, por ejemplo, la franqueza con que Bell aborda el episodio de los abusos que Virginia sufrió de niña por parte de su hermanastro George Duckworth, un trauma que podría explicar tanto su sexualidad difícil como los constantes desequilibrios psíquicos que finalmente la conducirían al suicidio.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Later, I met a woman to whom I said, "If all my family had stood around me as a child and said, 'You're wonderful. You're wonderful. You're wonderful.' after an hour I would have complained, 'You're not saying it loud enough.

Oh, and Miss Himmelsteen, short of my wife and kids dead on the highway, hold all my calls. In fact, if my wife and kids are dead, well, they'll all be just as dead thirty minutes from now, so hold all my calls.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

There are two things you can run and not hide from–God and a dysfunctional family.

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.