Quotes About Family

my uncle died.and i don't feel sad because he died.but i felt so sad when i realize that i will never see him alive again in my whole life.

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

Many couples will fight in front of their children but reconcile in private. This skews a child's perceptions, even at early ages, for the child always sees the wounding but never the bandaging. Parents who practice bandaging each other after a fight, deliberately and explicitly, allow their children to model both how to fight fair and how to make up.

Author Elizabeth Stone once said, "Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Teachers find many children emotionally distracted, so upset and preoccupied by the explosive drama of their own family lives that they are unable to concentrate on such mundane matters as multiplication tables.

The four biggest reasons you'll fight Why will you fight? I mentioned four consistent sources of marital conflict in the transition to parenthood. Left to their own devices, all can profoundly influence the course of your marriage, and that makes them capable of affecting your child's developing brain. I'll call them the Four Grapes of Wrath. They are: • sleep loss • social isolation • unequal workload • depression

You want to get your kid into Harvard? You really want to know what the data say? I'll tell you what the data say! Go home and love your wife!

Parents who consistently apply attention—especially in these early years—statistically raise the happiest kids.

In fact, one of the biggest predictors of marital bliss appears to be the agreement to have kids in the first place.

Yes, your children are constantly observing you. They are profoundly influenced by what they record. And that can quickly turn from funny to serious, especially when mommy and daddy start fighting.

Why would anyone willingly take on this line of work? The interview for the job, that single act of sex, is certainly fun. But then you get hired to raise a child.

Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

said, "Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Veteran

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Friends, there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.

It was the first family-related encounter I could think of that didn't involve a hint of secrets or sadness lurking below the surface.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse's laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating.

What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!

There was no question in my mind on that muggy August day that within less than a year - and on my father's birthday - Look Back in Anger would have opened, in what still seems like an inordinately long, sharp and glimmering summer.

my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited

The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.

Marriage… is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston.

If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is a family group where kinship, however distant, stretches into the oddest corners.