Quotes About Family

I love my mother. My mother loves my dad. Those two facts are undeniable. I want my father to live. I want him to fight to live as long as he can. My mother wants to let him pass. She does not want him suffering anymore. She says that I am not there in the middle of the night at home, when he begs her to let him die. I say that he should not be taking the medicine that the doctor is prescribing, that it made Mike Tyson want to eat his opponents young.

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess's room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.

Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.

Melayne looked across at Ysane, who was propped up in bed, nursing her new son. Bantry, beaming as proudly as if he had miraculously given birth himself, hovered nervously at the far side of the bed.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

One night a father overheard his son pray: "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is." Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." —Anonymous

A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.

Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.

In my view, America's greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

MZ twins are as closely related to their nieces and nephews as they are to their own children.

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Blood is thicker than water.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Her family threw her out, years ago; they even offered to pay her to stay away." She added proudly: "But Kathy wouldnt take their money. Shes lived in a little hellhole in the Quarter ever since then—on her own . Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Those blackouts she has— Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Shes dying," she said abruptly.

Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.