Quotes About Family

What makes the church truly unique in the life of the people of God is that we are now meant to hold our place in the wall together, in teams of people who worship like monks, live like family, and engage the world like missionaries. But what happens when the church itself goes astray? When the church becomes more of a club than the hands and feet of Jesus? We are called to examine our hearts and test our ways. It is time also to look at the way we do church.

A good parent always gives their children roots and wings. Roots to settle down, and wings to bravely go where you need to go.

My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

20When a son learns wisdom, a father's heart is glad.

When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father. When a son turns from wisdom, a mother grieves.

The wisdom of Solomon:a When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father.

11Jesus, the Holy One, makes us holy. And as sons and daughters, we now belong to his same Father,n so he is not ashamed or embarrassed to introduce us as his brothers and sisters!

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

Family must rely upon family, since governments do not comprehend families.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.' – Chinese proverb

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My mother's message to black and white folks alike was clear: It's nobody's business what I do for my children, nor how I manage to do it.

The word secret is so loaded, suggests its country cousin shame ; but I wasn't ashamed of anything because our family secret wasn't dark and my mother acted neither apologetic nor embarrassed.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Home is where my mom is.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.