Quotes About Family

Being a mom is a big job, with small and memorable moments calling on our patience and building our character every day.

Conscious parenting is really about self-awareness; the more self-aware you are, the better you can set your family's conditions and boundaries.

Most important, through your mindfulness, you can break any chains of negative and abusive behavior that have been passed down through your relatives.

Being a mom often makes it challenging to take time for personal growth; I've never had a positive insight or come into a new awareness that didn't directly affect my marriage or my children in a positive way.

Remember that loving yourself and nourishing your spirit is loving the family you care for, and there is no better way to start your day than connecting with the beauty inside you.

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.

You have a teenage daughter, Miles. She'll be smart one minute and stupid the next. Deal with it.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

with growing horror. People at the school had lied to them directly, pretending I was making up stories. The tape ended. No one spoke. "Well?" I asked. "I'm calling your lawyer," my mother finally said. "And," my father added, "let's call your friend at Health and Human Services." He shook his head, a fury on his face unlike any I had ever seen. "We're going to destroy this school," he muttered coldly.

Basketball Rule #1 In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

Did y'all arrest Uncle Bob's turkey? It was just criminal what he did to that bird, wasn't it? You

It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

Orphans The word seems sad when you say it. An orphan is like a soul bulb waiting to be planted in just the right place. When you're an orphan, you no longer belong, but a child is a child of everyone, they belong to a community, to a greater garden, she says.

Out of the Dust is a story about a lanky piano-playing girl named Billie Jo whose mother is gone, whose father's heart and soul are disappearing into the dust that blankets their Oklahoma town, and even though the first 59 pages rain down hard on you, when you get to page 60 the monsoon comes and the book is unputdownable.

Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break.

All because your bike got stolen and you lost your cool one night and then posted that you needed someone to intervene between you and the monsters and your cousin Julie told your aunt who called your dad who texted Mom who drove all night and scheduled an appointment with St. Nick who thinks your post was a cry for help when actually you were just listening to Eminem and thought the song was kinda nice

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

Claudia Gould's native French but Anna's answer was in English. It had become a battle of wills between her and her mother.

If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by.