Quotes About Family

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.

I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected… but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.

You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.

For a child, there are no such thing as unconditional love, it is all unconditional need.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

The unconditional love for your child, it's truly amazing.

A parent's unconditional love is the foundation on which children build their lives. The stronger the foundation the higher and sturdier the children can build.

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Wedding are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

"I look at you and I'm home."

"When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home."

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.