Quotes About Family

As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather's pet monkey.

God planted in men a strong desire also of propagating their kind, and continuing themselves in their posterity; and this gives children a title to share in the property of their parents, and a right to inherit their possessions.

When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think… I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

Not only had Stewart's mother gone to Vassar, but her sister and her mother were graduates as well. The school was legendary for its skeptical academic mantra, "Go to primary sources," an outlook that was repeatedly conveyed to Brand through the maternal side of his family.

When it's all said and done, the only thing that matter in life are so damn simple. Family, friends. being safe and well. I think before the war a lot of people got sucked in by the crap on TV. They thought having the right shoes or the right jeans or the right car really mattered. Boy were we ever dumb.

Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...

You're the most important person in my life," I said. He didn't say anything. "You're my brother," I said. He didn't say anything. "I love you, you little ratbag," I said. He smiled, snuggled down in the bed, and closed his eyes.

families where the parents float around in a haze of brightly coloured hemp and honey-almond candles, a copy of a self-help book tucked under an arm, and a Dalai Lama keyring for their four-wheel-drive clutched in their hand.

I know a girl She puts the color inside of my world But she's just like a maze Where all of the walls all continually change And I've done all I can To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands Now I'm starting to see Maybe it's got nothing to do with me Fathers, be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do Girls become lovers who turn into mothers So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

You were a beautiful child," he heard himself saying, and for a moment he did not know to whom he spoke. Light swam before his eyes, found shape, and became the face of his daughter, lined and somber and worn with care.

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.

Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The problem in today's economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman's intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Another saying, "The egg didn't like its shell," was used for people who tried to distance themselves from where they came from, or who disrespected their parents.

On the way to the train station, my mother said that she wasn't going to wash my sheets after I left. Sometimes, she said, she slept in my bed for one or two nights, because the bed still smelled like me. She smiled conspiratorially, and I felt my heart constrict.

I understood that the rest of my life would consist of causing Ivan to lug that suitcase in and out of his mother's old car, for all our days.

What about the rest of the family? Did you meet them, too?" I explained that I had met everyone except the sister in Transylvania and the sister at the hospital. My mother sighed. "He will want to marry you," she said. "I'm very concerned. That's what it means when men want you to meet their sisters." "Don't worry, nobody wants to marry me," I said. But somewhere inside, a tiny part of me felt a thrill.

Since I had left, my mother said, the water bill had gone down by 80 percent.