Quotes About Family

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

As James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University, puts it, "75 percent of spontaneous food purchases can be traced to a nagging child. And one out of two mothers will buy a food simply because her child requests it. To trigger desire in a child is to trigger desire in the whole family.

Thou fastest every day," said the Prophet, "and keepest vigil every night in prayer." "Yea, that indeed I do," said 'Uthrnan, for he had heard him speak again and again of the merits of fasting and of night prayer. "Do not so," said the Prophet, "for verily thine eyes have their rights over thee, and thy body hath its rights, and thy family have their rights, So pray, and sleep, and fast, and break fast."!

Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

For most modern Western men, abandoning their families will result in increasing their dispensable income by as much as three quarters.[167] In the whole of nature, there is no arrangement that is more demanding and more altruistic.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François Rabelais, 1494-1553

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

He who brings trouble to his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise Proverbs 11:29

job!' This son of hers was caught up in the middle, as usual. It was the bane of the middle child's life. Caught between the first-born and the last-born, they were often left to their own devices.

will always be there for you, and so will your dad. We might fight and argue, but we are family at bottom, eh?

After all, they were brothers, bonded by blood, and nothing would ever change that.

They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.