Quotes About Family

The plane had seating for twelve, legroom for five, and all the turbulence of Darcy's family life.

No puedo recordar a mi hermana, me pregunto sin embargo qué acerca a la gente al cañón de una escopeta y qué nos mantiene al resto alejados.

Spurred by necessity, women of the Revolution helped keep a torn society from falling apart. A single entry from the diary of Temperance Smith, the parson's wife from Connecticut, reveals how religion, politics, work, and family, thoroughly interwoven, enabled women to carry on: On

the American Revolution was our first civil war, pitting neighbors against neighbors and splitting families apart.

The notion that women were "displaying a distinctive form of patriotism" by "shaming" their men into battle oversimplifies the female experience of the Revolutionary War. Women did become more political, by necessity if not by choice—but this does not mean that the political goals of the state superceded personal commitments to family and natural instincts for survival.

Before my mother would give you that dime allowance, she'd want you to do a little chore around the house. Like build a porch.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

I lived at home till I was 29.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong." But she is not using her strengths and abilities to compete with her husband. She is not driven by an identity crisis or treating her marriage as a matter of sexual politics. She is too mature for that. She is giving herself away to her husband, her family, and her community with wholehearted selflessness. A woman of this quality is rare: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Father, I love you,yet how can I say thank you, I who can't hold my liquor eitherand don't even know the places to fish.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer?

Pour la première fois, en buvant des cerises à l'eau-de-vi', je me saoûlai. C'était aux Andelys, je crois, et ma famille me regardait fort amusée. Elle ne pensait pas qu'un jour mes fortes cuites la feraient un peu déchanter

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director ' because nobody has any idea.

Unhealthy family patterns—such as willingly spending your life working hard without any compensation— can end up running your life, leaving behind powerful and long-lasting effects that you and those around you must eventually reconcile.

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

In the rush of busy life, we don't get enough of time to enjoy with our children.

I have no butt, none of the men in my family do.

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'