Quotes About Family

Though many of us take pride in how different we are from our parents, we are endlessly sad at how different our children are from us.

The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances.

This book's conundrum is that most of the families described here have ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid.

If some glorious angel descended into my living room and offered to exchange my children for other, better children-brighter, kinder, funnier, more loving, more disciplined, more accomplished-I would clutch the ones I have and, like most parents, pray away the atrocious specter.

All that children can properly require of their parents is that they tolerate their own muddled spectrum - that they neither insist on the lie of perfect happiness nor lapse into the slipshod brutality of giving up.

In the twentieth century, homosexuality was said to be caused by overbearing mothers and passive fathers; schizophrenia reflected the parents' unconscious wish that their child did not exist; and autism was the result of "refrigerator mothers," whose coldness doomed their children to a fortress of silence. We've now realized that such complex and overdetermined conditions are not the result of parental attitude or behavior.

At least half of the children available for adoption in the United States have disabilities of some kind.

In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon.

I told my mother that she was not going anywhere and that I would remember her for a good long time because she was going to go on reminding me of herself.

But parents may also seek surgical fixes because they feel like they will know how to be a parent to that child, whereas

From the beginning, we tempt them into imitation of us and long for what may be life's most profound compliment: their choosing to live according to our own system of values. Though many of us take pride in how different we are from our parents, we are endlessly sad at how different our children are from us.

Aunque muchos de nosotros nos sentimos orgullosos de lo diferentes que somos de nuestros padres, nos entristece lo diferentes que nuestros hijos son de nosotros.

The home is the place where worship of the true God starts: the place where we remember and recite God's Word, and where we learn to respond to God with our heart, soul, strength, and—as Jesus added when he called this the greatest commandment—with our mind as well.

If you are looking for a single proximate cause of the loneliness that is epidemic in our world, it is the dearth of households.

Build into every single day an hour, for everyone in the household, free from the promises and demands of our devices.

We love the way screens can, almost magically, absorb our children's attention and give us a few moments of quiet in the car or before dinner.

I want to suggest a pretty radical idea about what family is for. Family is about the forming of persons. Being a person is a gift, like life itself—we are born as human beings made in the image of God. But while in one sense a person is simply what we are as human beings, we are also able to become—to grow in capacities that are only potentially present within us at first. Family shapes us in countless ways. But I want to

All real change starts with the number of people who can sit around a table in a single household

I hate you, Andy,' says Jen. 'I really HATE you. I REALLY, REALLY HATE YOU!' 'Jen!' says Mum, coming into the room with a cup of tea in one hand and a crossword puzzle book in the other. 'What an awful thing to say to your brother! Apologise to him this instant!' 'But, Mum …' says Jen. 'No buts,' says Mum. 'There's no excuse for speaking like that. Apologise right now!

Mom always said not to worry about love, but just to be sure to get married. But I always knew that I would never get married, because I don't want any children, I don't want them to have the same problems that I have. I don't think anybody deserves it.

Sometimes it is the ones we love the most are what we value the most.

queen. You have power, but you have paid dearly for it. You have wealth, but it brings you no joy, for you are dressed even more simply than my mother. You can have anything you desire, and hundreds of servants obey your command, but you cannot retrieve the things you have lost—like your son. Your family.

Honor your father and mother, Son. You chose to honor us, and you did the right thing. Your father and I believe God wanted to protect you for a greater purpose.