Quotes About Family

A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.  The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man.  It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul.  It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.

Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.

Home was a curious thing, like happiness. You never knew you had had it until it was gone.

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.

Each child marked a decline in the security of their life.

sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.

Perhaps if she were to live with a homey type of family they could introduce her to "the right sort of people.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed.

I was lonely enough and homesick in the years that followed. My father died while I was studying in Rome, and I could not be at his funeral. When I was at last ordained in Rome, none of my family could afford to make the trip to be with me. Yet through those years I never once wavered in my conviction that God had called me for the Russian missions; I never doubted that I would one day serve him there.

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm marrying into a pack of tigers," PJ said. "I'm going to have to watch myself night and day." Sempronia patted his arm. "Retain that thought, my dear," she said, "and we'll get along fine.

Sometimes, the word "stateless" is carelessly or even abusively used; but it does describe those peoples who had no machinery of government coercion and no concept of a political unit wider than the family or the village. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.

She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

Wanda E. Brunstetter

treatment had begun, things were more advanced than anyone had suspected. It shook Sara to the core how quickly it all happened. Her mother never complained of any pain she might have had. When she started feeling under the weather, she made an appointment with the doctor, figuring it was only a virus.