Quotes About Family

I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.

You can only be as happy as your saddest child.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were."-

My dad saved for everything that mattered—a washer and dryer, a new refrigerator. By the time I left home in Nashville in 1976, he still hadn't gotten a new TV. He said his "money wasn't right." When The Oprah Winfrey Show went national, that's the first thing I bought him—a color TV, paid for in cash

And when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed. (Dr. Bruce Perry)

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

In every garden, on every street, we see mothers holding tightly to their children's hands (fifty years later, Théophile Gautier posited that Melling preferred painting women with children, finding them less unsettling and more deserving of respect than women walking alone).

Even if you're not happy"—here, she indicated my brother with her eyes—"even when you're having your worst day you live your life as if you are. All sorrows fade away when you're surrounded by your family.

Why should we expect a city to cure us of our spiritual pains? Perhaps we cannot help loving our city like a family. But we still have to decide which part of the city we love and invent the reasons why.

Eso que llaman familia cada día que pasaba me parecía más como un grupo de personas que aparentan ser felices acallando por un rato sus demonios interiores para que creer que son amadas y para sentirse tranquilas, cómodas y seguras

Sibel, Bat? d??? ülkelerin, özellikle Ä°slam ülkelerinin burjuvalar?n?n yerinde sezgisiyle, psikanalizi aile içi dayan??ma ve s?r paylaÅŸma yoluyla tedavi al??kanl??? olmayan Bat?l?lar için icat edilmiÅŸ bilimsel bir s?r verme ritüeli olarak görürdü.

Is the need for a father always there, or do we feel it only when we are confused, or anguished, when our world is falling apart?

There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were shaded by a canopy in the form of a flying carpet.

Samiha asked, "Did you write the letters to me or to my sister?" "I wrote the letters to you," said Mevlut.

Then suddenly I'd hear a ship coming from the direction of Karaköy and Tophane blowing its whistle, and I would remember the noise of the city, and its crowds, and as I tried to conjure up the image of the ferries approaching the piers, I would reluctantly realize just how involved I'd become with the Keskin family, how much time I'd spent eating at this table: As these ships had gone by, blowing their whistles, I'd not even noticed how many months and years had passed us by.

Ben sana ÅŸundan söz ediyorum: Biraz esnek ol! Ya hep ya hiç görüÅŸünü deÄŸiÅŸtir. Hayat?n hep küçük uzlaÅŸmalar olduÄŸunu anla. Aile ve dükkan? BaÅŸka bir ÅŸey yok mu? BaÅŸka bir ÅŸey yoksa hayat çok dar, s?k?c? ve zevksiz demektir. Bu görüÅŸünü deÄŸiÅŸtir. Biraz daha aç?l.

En nuestro edificio nunca vi a nadie de nuestra familia rezando, ni ayunando, ni susurrando oraciones. Desde cierto punto de vista, los míos vivían como asustados burgueses franceses, voluntariamente apartados de la religión pero temerosos de intentar un último ajuste de cuentas con ella

Evet, ama bir tiyatrocu! diye düÅŸündü. Bir aile ona ne kadar uzak!

Why should we expect a city to cure us of our spiritual pains? Perhaps because we cannot help loving our city like a family. But we still have to decide which part of the city we love and invent the reasons why.

with a sad smile she would recount the time our grandfather was so displeased with our grandmother's okra stew that in a fit of temper he threw the pot out the window into the deep, fast-running waters of the Bosphorus.

felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a "scientific sharing of confidences" invented for Westerners unaccustomed to the curative traditions of family solidarity and shared secrets.

I'd discovered how proud and fragile men could be, the sense of self that courses through their veins. I knew that fathers and sons were capable of killing each other. Whether it was father's killing their sons, or sons killing the fathers, men always emrged victorious , and all that was left for me to do was weep.

As a fatherless son, so a sonless father will be embraced by none. —FERDOWSI, Shahnameh

Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them in good large doses. It will not only save you doctors' bills, but it will also help to make your children happier, and will improve their chances in life.