Quotes About Family

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

She had felt homesick. But she was at home.

He explained that when you're very young, if you get upset or angry, you need an adult to soothe you and calm you down. Over time, as you grow up, if you're soothed enough, you learn to soothe yourself. You internalise the reassurance and relaxation your family gave to you. But stressed out parents, through no fault of their own, find it harder to soothe their children because they are so amped up themselves.

A childhood is made up of small moments of connection between a child and their parent. If you miss them, you don't ever get them back.

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo

Curiously, it turned out emotional abuse was more likely12 to cause depression than any other kind of trauma—even sexual molestation. Being treated cruelly by your parents was the biggest driver of depression, out of all these categories.

The problem was, Nadine wrote later, that we never knew which mother we were going to get. Everyday after school it was a guessing game. Are we coming home to happy mom or scary mom?

It said depression and anxiety were carried in your genes. I knew my mother had been depressed and highly anxious before I was born (and after), and that we had these problems in my family running further back than that.

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.

In the same way, the most restless of travellers ends up pining for his homeland once again, and discovers in his cottage, in the arms of his wife and amidst his children, and in the labours that are necessary to support them, that joy he sought in vain in the wide world.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.