Quotes About Family

driven by greed, try to become giants and fail," Munson writes on his blog. "We aren't like that. We are and will maintain our family of leather owners with love.

the royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

He asked that the picture not be published simply because his mother did not like it.

Even family acquaintances whom I had never met emailed their breast cancer stories

Maggie Louise sat in a hardback chair, holding her baby brother, Squinchy, and her eyes fell upon Agee. There was something about the eyes of Maggie Louise that caught him the first time they met. They were 'temperature less, keen, serene, and wise and pure gray eyes,' Agee said, and they seemed to look everywhere and see into things. To look into the eyes of Maggie Louise was 'scary as hell, and even more mysterious than frightening,' said Agee. She knew she'd like him and he her.

Margaret [Arlo] was once asked how she felt about her life over the past fifty years. The look in her eyes revealed that she understood the true question: How is it that you continued over fifty years to be as poor as you were at the beginning? ... 'I'm rich-poor,' she said. 'You see, I got my son. I got my Bible. That's all I need. I don't treasure nothin' on earth.

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children.

C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

For this purpose we will benefit most from the great passages of scripture that clearly show us our Father in relation to his creation and his earthly family. These are passages such as Genesis 1 or 15; Exodus 19; 1 Kings 8; 2 Chronicles 16 and 19; Nehemiah 9; many of the psalms (34, 37, 91, and 103, for example); Isaiah 30, 44, and 56–66; Luke 11; Romans 8; Philippians 4.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

In fact that evil could spring from an innocent child in a loving family remained one of the paradoxes of the human soul.

Então, quer dizer que, mesmo tendo o poder de interferir e evitar que seu filho sentisse dor, você optaria por demonstrar seu amor deixando-o aprender suas próprias lições? - Claro, a dor é parte do crescimento. É como aprendemos. O camerlengo sacudiu a cabeça. - Exatamente. Cap. 89

But most important... what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes... even after all these years... and not even recognize him?

por cada locura de los padres, los hijos cometen otra de igual magnitud, pero en el sentido opuesto.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Their house was about a mile outside of town. The kids would play outdoors, in the backyard and the large stubble field behind the house. Dusk seemed to last for hours, and when it was finally dark they would sit under the porch light, catching thickly buzzing June bugs and moths, or even an occasional toad who hopped into the circle of light, tempted by the halo of insects that floated around the bare orange lightbulb next to the front door

I understand that she was very unhappy, and maybe she was so devastated by her mother's death that she couldn't stand to face it. But who just abandons their family in that way? What kind of person decides that they can throw everything away and reinvent themselves? As if you could just discard the parts of your life that you didn't want anymore.

When Beth was killed, she was reading. It was around four on a Thursday afternoon, school was done and she was on her way to pick up Hazel at day care, hurrying down the sidewalk toward the bus stop. Walking and reading, which he always warned her about, her feet moving automatically beneath her as she flipped through a stack of quizzes that her students had taken in preparation for their sixth grade proficiency test. What

He's teaching her arithmetic, He said it was his mission, He kissed her once and said, Now that's addition. And as he added smack by smack In silent satisfaction, She sweetly gave the kisses back and said, Now that's subtraction. Then he kissed her, she kissed him, Without an explanation, And both together smiled and said, That's multiplication. Then Dad appeared upon the scene and Made a quick decision. He kicked that kid three blocks away And said, That's long division!

I bet you guys can't name three things invented in Nebraska," Coke asked the family. "No, but I'm sure you can," his sister replied. "Kool-Aid, CliffsNotes, and Eskimo Pies!

road. It's soul lifting. You're going to see what makes America's heart beat. My family took a cross-country trip when I was a kid. Boy, those were some of the best memories of my life." "What happened?" Pep asked. "Uh . . . I . . . don't remember, actually," Dr. McDonald admitted. "It was

David cannot recall being hugged, kissed, or told he was loved by his parents. The only physical comfort he had was from "Mammy," an African-American housekeeper who recognized David's needs and provided solace. On Saturdays she'd take him to a movie, where she was allowed to sit with him in the whites' section. He is convinced that, "If I hadn't had Mammy, I would have been in much worse shape.