Quotes About Family

I didn't know God until I saw them. Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.

Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.

When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This

Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato

Maybe you don't really appreciate your father until he has huge tits.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

There is a death far worse than physical death, and that is the death of the mind and soul, when, despite toiling night and day, under sweltering heat, torrential rain, blistering winds, you still cannot make enough to clothe, shelter and feed your loved ones, suffering miles away, forcibly separated from you.

Las dos piernas rotas, mi espina aplastada y vestido como un jodido pervertido. Papá va a matarme.

Memories are not images of loved ones returning to us. They are the spirits of loved ones visiting us.

Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.

We have continually emphasized the dimensions of Christianity that have to do with family, togetherness, belonging, and membership. Please don't misunderstand. These truths are vital, and I believe in their validity. But when they are presented out of balance, they can do great damage. And let's face it: they have been presented out of balance.

the nationalization of the family proceeds apace, and America is as well advanced on that path as anywhere else. "The west has nationalized families over the last 60 years," writes Vaidyanathan. "Old age, ill health, single motherhood—everything is the responsibility of the state.

Having done an impressive job of demolishing the basic societal building block of the family, the ambitious liberal is now moving on to demolishing the basic building block of the sexes.

We've elevated the secondary impulses over the primary ones: national defense, self-reliance, family, and, most basic of all, reproductive activity. If you don't "go forth and multiply" you can't afford all those secondary-impulse programs, like lifelong welfare, whose costs are multiplying a lot faster than you are.

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Every woman stayed alone in her house in those days, like a coin in a safe. Amy and I lived alone with our mother most of the day. Amy was three years younger than I. Mother and Amy and I went our separate ways in peace.

I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.

By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.

Between a mother's eyes and her son's face, there is not air. There is something invisible and invincible. Even though—or because—he will go out into the world, she will never lose her passion to protect him.

It's a sin for Lily to let Mercedes think it was Daddy who beat up Frances. But he has done it in the past. Surely truth can be borrowed across time without perishing. Shelf life, so to speak.

A los hijos no les hace ninguna gracia el estrés que el padre o la madre traen de su trabajo. Lo que desean y necesitan es su presencia. Desean que sus padres les dediquen tiempo.

for floor personnel, who are also, at staff mealtime, referred to as the floor or the family or simply scum.

Imagine your Aunt Minnie bringing you a plate of cookies as you sat in front of the TV, a string of human molars strung casually, like pearls, around her neck.