Quotes About Family

As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.

Parenting is a gift for adults' spiritual growth spurts, and it's a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter!

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

The way caricaturists utilized the convention of romantic Salon painting as the basis of a number of images suggests they regarded the Salon as a bastion for official taste and propaganda image-making that often favored the inclinations of the royal family. Caricaturists began to make serious intrusions into the sanctity of Salon exhibitions through their print satires.

Casi siempre oí opinar sobre el caso de matrimonios mal venidos en el sentido de que, si el marido falla, la mujer debe, pesar de todo, tolerarlo, sufrir y callar con tal de mantener la vida conyugal" (. ..) "yo vengo de una familia mal avenida; siempre creí que mi madre tenía que haber ahorrado los sufrimientos que le dio mi padre y haber salvado algo de felicidad para su vida

Father Tomaselli, a now-deceased exorcist, used to say that at times a single blasphemer was sufficient to ruin an entire family with diabolical presences. This case proved his point.

Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.

She'd lostDad,

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

Florentine… Florentine Lacasse…, moitié peuple, moitié chanson, moitié printemps, moitié misère… Une Florentine détestant servir, détestant chaque minute de son assujettissement à la vie et, cependant, donnant ses payes presque en entier à sa famille. Une jeune fille que consumaient le dégoût du travail quotidien et aussi le dévouement aux siens. Une Florentine inconnue!

C'est si petit, si laid et si plein d'enfants chez nous.

Quant à Mme Létourneau, sa pauvre âme timide, aimante et faible avait si longtemps cherché à mettre ces deux êtres d'accord qu'elle était devenue comme un miroir qui reflétait avec excès la vivacité de son fils et la grave dignité de son mari.

Alexandre avait commencé à causer avec son voisin, un fonctionnaire, depuis très longtemps employé à l'hôtel de ville de Montréal; de l'avis de son médecin, il lui aurait fallu trois mois de vacances. Mais comment faire? Une seule de ces filles était mariée. Il disait que la vie des homme semblait être de sortir de leur campagne afin de faire assez d'argent dans la ville pour venir refaire leur santé à la campagne.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Other people's parents are often a delight.

Though you cannot see him, you become aware of the fact that your father is sitting on the floor. He is folding cranes so that your mother can string them. This is marriage.

When Sam had described the relationship between Marx and his father, he had said it was fraught, that Watanabe-san was demanding and sometimes even demeaning to Marx. Sadie saw no evidence of that. She found Marx's father to be bright, interesting, and engaged. Other people's parents are often a delight.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

When you have children, you'll never be able to worry about a friend as much again," Dov said.

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

You call your mother. You're in a panic, but as soon as your mother answers the phone, you relax. When your mother is worrying about something, it means that you won't have to.

Though I hadn't had a stroke like Uncle Yuri, it was still difficult for me to express what was in my heart. I wanted to tell her that I loved her, that she was the most important person in the world to me, that I was truly sorry for having lied to her about Liberty. Instead, I asked her what she wanted for dinner.