Quotes About Family

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

His brother and sister were the dearest people, but dreadfully good; they thought everything wrong. - William Price describing Fanny and Edmund to Georgiana Darcy

Es ist normal geworden, keine Wurzeln mehr zu haben. Nicht in Orten, nicht in Familien. Kein Grund, sich zu beklagen. Dafür leben wir heute länger. Wenn auch nicht ganz klar ist, wozu. (Der Mann schläft. Seite 74)

We're sisters under the mink.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as "symbols" of family life. What they want are ideal children, not real ones; and as soon as the real ones show no intention of conforming to the ideal in the parent's mind, they are treated as burdens, shipped away to school or otherwise neglected.

A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes himself likable as a person.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Somebody once said that if many people had not read about romantic love and seen it on the screen, they would never look for it themselves. I believe this. And along with it I believe that if many people were not ashamed to be thought deficient in "family feeling" they would never have children.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Who was Tanta? Why Tanta was just Tanta. All of the other aunts could be called Tanta Rivka. Tanta Frieda or Tanta Fannie, but not this Tanta. She had a name - it was Minnie - but the children never thought of using it. She was Tanta - The Tanta...

I hardly think you'd be comfortable in this Succah for ever and ever," Papa said. "But I know just how you feel. It is nice to be making with your own hands the thing you are going to use. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll leave the little house up for about a month after the holiday so you can enjoy it." "Oh, Papa," the children all cried, "how wonderful!

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

The developmental needs and tasks of your children should always be at the forefront of your parenting.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

You are all my reasons.

Therefore, at some point or other of Sir Glamie's pedigree an Elfin lady must have yielded to a mortal lover, and immortality, like the pox, has run in the family ever since.

Although she had chosen presents with such care for her relations, Laura was surprised when counter presents arrived from them. She had not thought of them as remembering her. (77)

There would be a book tour too, he said, and he wanted Marianne to come with him. "Mahalia Jackson is on the record player, I'm right there with her, flying with you in that glory, pulling away the shrouds from the sun, making music out of everything." Man he wrote a mean letter. The telegram he sent was shorter but equally effective: "Have a flat. All I need is my woman and her child." Marianne packed two suitcases and flew with Axel to Montreal.

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.