Quotes About Family

Home is with the person you love, and who loves you back stupidly and completely. Home is the space of peace in your heart. And I'm finally home.

Are you sure this is okay?" he asks. "I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who's dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?" "I like how you added in the 'handsome.

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

And while I'm at it, I'll find out what's wrong with your sister, too.

You make me proud every day." Lucy and I start to groan, ready to tell him to stop being so sappy, when he laughs. "And I'm most proud when you're home by curfew without any boys around.

All of us sit at the table, like a family—a dysfunctional one, but a family nonetheless.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

Establish the work-pay-purchase connection. As far as I am concerned there is no age too young to start learning that money must be earned to buy the things your family needs.

First, establish nonpaying chores. These are the basic courtesies you all do for the benefit of the family.

No matter who you are and what you have in this life, every single one of you needs the following three documents: A will A revocable living trust with an incapacity clause An advance directive and durable power of attorney for health care

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

A grandmother is a safe haven.

Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

Quest'anno, per la prima volta, il suo Natale e quello dei suoi figli sarebbe stato un Natale vero, come quelli della sua infanzia. Era scesa la sera tra chiacchiere, risate, vapore di cibi antichi ed erano tutti intorno al tavolo, allungato per l'occasione e coperto da una tovaglia immacolata.

The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them.

Knowing that mother and father are the visible representatives of God, the householder, always and by all means, must please them. If the mother is pleased, and the father, God is pleased with the man. That child is really a good child who never speaks harsh words to his parents.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

But when you work long hours, you never want your children to think they're not a priority - so something else in the schedule has to give instead. Inevitably, the thing to go is time for yourself.

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.