Quotes About Family

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.

Starting immediately, thank God for every gift He gives, from those as small as a whiff of honeysuckle or jasmine in your backyard, to the realization that you just had a few moments without back pain, to really big things like the fact that [people you love] are in the next room safe and sound. "I'm

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Dad and Gram didn't take a single day on the ranch for granted. Regardless of the weather, the greeted each morning as if they'd embrace it, filling their eyes with a vaulting sky and sagebrush-coverd ridges. Then they gave silent prayer of thanks for living the life they loved.

There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.

I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.

Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life's most pleasant fuel.

Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.

Bindi, Robert, and I would do our best to make sure that Steve's light wasn't hidden under a bushel. It would continue to sine as we worked together to protect all wildlife and all wild places.

All of a sudden he stripped off his wet suit. It was winter and quite cold. "What are you doing?" I called out. He stood in the icy water. "This is how dedicated I am to having a boy baby," he said, with a mischievous grin. I said, "I think you're just supposed to keep them cool, not actually freeze them off." He laughed.

Even on the road, we continued our efforts to conceive. Part of our boy-baby effort was the need to try right at the time of ovulation. I packed an ovulation kit with me everywhere. When the strip turned blue, it meant we had a twenty-four- to forty-eight-hour window to get busy. At first I had Steve convinced that women ovulated twenty or thirty times a month. But I couldn't trick him forever. At some point he realized that that was impossible.

The best times in my life were out in the bush with Steve.

It was after this trip to our conservation property in the Brigalow Belt that I discovered I was pregnant. I tried to let Steve know by sitting down at the table and tucking into a bowl of ice cream and pickles. "What are you doing?" asked a totally confused Steve. I explained, and we were both totally overjoyed, keeping our fingers crossed for a boy to go along with our darling daughter.

As John arranged to bring Steve home, the media pressure steadily increased. I told Wes I wanted to go meet the plane, but that I wouldn't take the kids. This was my time to be with my soul mate, and I needed to do it on my own.

Steve's mother threw us an engagement party for Queensland friends and family, and I encountered a very common theme: "We never thought Steve would get married." Everyone said it--relatives, old friends, and schoolmates. I'd smile and nod, but my inner response was, Well, we've got that in common. And something else: Wait until I get home and tell everybody I am moving to Australia.

What does the future hold for the Irwin family? Each and every day is filled with incredible triumphs and moments of terrible grief. And in between, life goes on. We are determined to continue to honor and appreciate Steve's wonderful spirit. It lives on with all of us. Steve lived every day of his life doing what he loved, and he always said he would die defending wildlife. I reckon Bindi, Robert, and I will all do the same. God bless you, Stevo. I love you, mate.