Quotes About Family

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Gate Do not wait. Until too late. To see a loved ones' soul. Open the gate. Do not wait. To see a loved ones' soul.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Perplexed and distressed, he fled the palace under the cover of night, leaving behind his wife and child

Toland was the first modern pantheist to combine a religious reverence for the Universe, with respect for science, and a belief that everything is made of matter. A pantheist, he wrote to the German philosopher Leibniz, was one of those persons "who believe in no other eternal being but the universe." When asked for a brief statement of his credo, Toland replied, "The sun is my father, the earth my mother, the world is my country and all men are my family.

Divorce is a very difficult decision to make and no one makes it lightly.

When a parent remarries a much younger spouse, the main dynamic that comes into play with adult children is sibling rivalry

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

If you ever mess with my daughter again, it will be the last mistake you make!

Granny was sizzling butter in an iron skillet on the gas range, and I was working the chicken-fried steak assembly line. I had just dropped a slab of meat into a bowl of flour, turning it over to coat both sides. Then I dipped the meat into a bowl of milk and eggs, letting the steak swim a bit. Finally, I put it back into the flour. That's how you bread steak

As Plautus said, lupus est homo homini. Man is a wolf to man. Inhumanity is often at its worst inside the family.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

Psychological research and social surveys consistently find that people around the world continue to derive most of their pleasure from having sex, eating, drinking, relaxing and socialising with family and friends. In private, many of them also seek chemical pleasure from illicit drugs, which is why drug trafficking is estimated to account for around 8 per cent of all international trade.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter's lacrosse game.

And thus I wonder about so many gay men I've met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.