Quotes About Family

Debo decir que siento cierta debilidad por los grupos étnicos margnianados de la actualidad. Parece como si los antropólogos siempre estuviesen acechándolos, como si su unidad familiar media comprendiera tres hijos y un antropólogo que se sienta con ellos y les pregunta qué están desayunando.

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Ne možeš imati dijete i ostati djevica....svaki put kada je Selma pokušala da ispri?a istinu o toj epizodi iz istorije svoje zemlje do?ekali bi je samo sažaljivi pogledi...i zbunjeni osmijesi...nisu joj vjerovali...mislili su da brani ?ast svoje porodice. Ogor?eno je shvatila da jedino pobjednik može nametnuti svoju istinu.

Family dysfunction is progressive. It never stays the same. As it progresses, appropriate boundaries between parent and child may become nonexistent and communication becomes increasingly strained.

As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within, we re-recreate our family in adult relationships.

All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.

Mothers and Dads: Your home atmosphere is the product of WORDS. Children fail because wrong WORDS were spoken. The right WORDS were not spoken.

Every person born into the family of God has the same redemption.

Like Dad Nelson said, "The time will come that you will need faith, either for yourself, or for some member of your family. And if you haven't kept your faith strong, you'll be at a disadvantage.

Determine in your heart to put spiritual things first and to esteem earthly things lightly. Put God first, even before your own self. You'll be blessed spiritually, physically, and in every way — you and your family as well.

I called up Georgette, and made a date to meet her for dinner that evening at the Van Barth. She sounded extra gay, though I couldn't imagine why. I was the only member of the family who knew what it meant to go all the way through life and come out of it alive.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

In another surprising statistic about the transfer of wealth from generation to generation, only 1.6 percent of Americans receive $100,000 or more in inheritance. Another 1.1 percent receives $50,000 to $100,000. The rest of the population — 97.3 percent — receives no inheritance whatsoever

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

But answering, He said to them, My mother and my brothers and sisters are these who the word of God are hearing and doing.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!