Quotes About Family

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

Your children get only one childhood.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Look for happiness under your own roof.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.