Quotes About Family

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

For some soldiers, there's a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

in regards to his mom and her new boyfriend] At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Parents—especially step-parents—are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

What befalls a trained soldier during combat between nations is one thing; what occurs at home—on our street, in our yard, and on our land, to family—is not the same. In Qana, those who died would not flee, would not leave their homes. That is what bayt means.

He despised music and considered it solely as an intrusion! For that matter the whole Freud family was very unmusical.

Intimate attachments are a hub around which a person's life revolves, not necessarily the hub.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

There are those from religious backgrounds who resist and oppose LGBT equality; some very obsessively and publicly. They make bold accusations and negative statements about gay and lesbian people, their supposed "lifestyle" and relationships. But when a son, daughter, brother, sister or close friend comes out it is no longer an "issue" it becomes a person. They realise everything they'd said was painfully targeted at someone they love. Then......everything changes.

La langue n'a pas inventé de nom pour qualifier ceux qui sont privés de leurs enfants. En revanche, l'homme qui ne travaille pas est un chômeur.

To artists, he was the lefty son of Klaus, a man who lived by his values, who knew hardship. To himself he was Francis Arsenault, his own invention, ex nihilo.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

There are often many generations buried in every front yard—which makes it a lot harder to sell the family farm and move to California.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Abel lifted her up - another gesture from former times, from when she'd been smaller - and carried her to the bathroom to find the Band-aid. Suddenly, Anna thought, she's growing up. One day, she'll be too big to be carried around like that. One day, he won't be able to hold onto her, she'll move on, and he'll be left all alone. Maybe the responsibility for Micha is more of an anchor than a burden. A lifeboat. A wooden plank to hold onto so you don't drown.

Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom?

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to humanity immediately, but to our father and mother, to our families, to our countries. After these, to humanity.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

Somos como un edificio y el hombre dedica al amor una habitación, lo demás es para el bricolaje, para los niños, para los amigos, para el trabajo...la mujer tumba todos los muros y deja que el amor lo inunde todo.

Tiene el padre entre las cejas un ceño que le aborrasca el rostro, un tachón sombrío como la huella de un hacha. Soñando está con sus hijos, que sus hijos lo apuñalan, y cuando despierta mira que es cierto lo que soñaba.