Quotes About Family

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. (Luke 15:20)

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (John 14:18)

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. (Prov. 21:9)

May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption.

Dear Jesus, there's no more important or necessary gift we can give our children than to keep on bringing them to you. Whether they're babies, teenagers, or adults themselves, it makes no difference. At every stage of life, our kids need you, Jesus.

Jesus, gracious Lord of the harvest, send us into the harvest you've secured for yourself. What more could we possibly want for our church family? What other story would we choose for the rest of our days in this world than to be the means by which you gather your bride from the nations and prepare her for a future beyond our wildest dreams? Forgive us, focus us, and free us. We pray in your loving and triumphant name. Amen.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

Some families, Katie told us, are devil-haunted; it's a curse a family can never shake off. Maybe it's something terrible in the family history, some terrible deed that was done in the past, and it just spreads and it spreads down the generations like a shout down a tunnel that echoes and echoes and never really stops.

I shouldered a kind of manhoodstepping in to lift the coffinsof dead relations.

By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.

I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Worst is the man who has all the good advice And then because his nerve fails, fails to act In accordance with it, as a leader should. And equally to blame Is anyone who puts the personal Above the overall thing, puts friend Or family first.

Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky. When high gods shake a house That family is going to feel the blow Generation after generation. It starts like an undulation underwater, A surge that hauls black sand up off the bottom, Then turns itself into a tidal current Lashing the shingle and shaking promontories.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.