Quotes About Family

Indeed, if one can say that one has built genuinely loving relationships with a spouse and children, then one has already succeeded in accomplishing more than most people accomplish in a lifetime.

To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death.

But most of the signs rather clearly point to the quality of parenting as the determinant.

The children are deprived of the knowledge they might gain about money, illness, drugs, sex, marriage, their parents, their grandparents and people in general. They are also deprived of the reassurance they might receive if these topics were discussed more openly. Finally, they are deprived of role models of openness and honesty, and are provided instead with role models of partial honesty, incomplete openness and limited courage.

Crescuti fara iubire, copiii ajung sa creada despre sine ca nu merita sa fie iubiti. Am putea spune ca aceasta este legea generala a dezvoltarii copiilor : ori de cate ori exista un deficit major in iubirea parentala, e foarte probabil ca respectivul copil sa raspunda la acest deficit presupunand ca el este cauza deficitului si dezvoltand, prin urmare, o imagine de sine negativa nerealista.

I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth.

ascertain, Jersey had no knowledge of demonology. At this point, all I could do was tell her and her family that I was very uncertain about the case, and that, after I got home, I would be

Children remind us to promise ourselves to the future. They remind us why the future is worth the promise.

The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.

Like one of those damned clapper lights. Love on. Love off. Robert musing about his parents love for him

Estás morto. Gozaste e descansas; mas eis aqui os frutos podres da incontinência; e são teus próprios filhos que vão tragá-los.

cousa é não achar já quem se lembre de meus pais, e de que modo me há de encarar o próprio esquecimento.

It does not matter; the reconciliation of a family is itself an enigmatic gesture.

cargo da cúria, mas as honras dele. Tio Cosme

A irmã era uma pobre velha, que além desse achaque, tinha mais dois: era surda e gostava de política.

Escreveme longamente; contame tudo o que houver interessante; falame de ti, que é o meio de consolar minhas saudades, que são imensas, imensas como este amor que tenho à minha família toda.

My father was different. He loved me, but under ordinary circumstances, he didn't see himself as my protector and my guide. He saw himself as a very cool person who loved to hang out with other cool people, including his own children.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.

I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children? I answered immediately and without thinking, We love each other.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you. Why? Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.