Quotes About Family

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

Gay couples cannot have children. All they can do is recruit your child.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

You don't know what love is until you meet your child.

I think it's incredibly important to spend the first year with your child, and it should be made possible for all women.

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

I feel teenage is an age when you should try and spend most of your time with your child. You can't leave them with maid or servants.

When Radar goes home, Peg and Erin go down to meet him. Erin sees Radar in uniform and calls him Daddy. It so incredibly perfectly captured the heartbreak of being away from your child who was growing up without you.