Quotes About Family

Ben...hadn't known fear or despair or loss of control in his comfortable middle-class family. Bonnie could teach him a lot that was missing from his character. And he could give her a degree of stability and confidence. Knowing it was sentimental, Simmy nonetheless felt that this was a perfect match, which she would do well to safeguard to the best of her ability. Ben would teach Bonnie to tread more carefully and to think more logically. Each would help the other to grow up.

when it comes down to it, that's what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can't show up anymore.

when it comes down to it, that's what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can't show up anymore.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

I'm a Snorlax! This morning we found a field with pineapples. I was so happy that after I finished them off I evolved from a Munchlax! Mom: Munchie, wake up! Time to eat! Me: Awwww, mom… WAIT! EAT??? YES!!! Munch. Munch. Munchlax. Munch. Nom. Nom. Nom. What's this? Pineapples?! YAY! Munch. Munch. Huh? What is happening, mom?!

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that's why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.

Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else.

God is at work telling a story of restoration and redemption through your family. Never buy into the myth that you need to become the " right" kind of parent before God can use you in your children's lives. Instead learn to cooperate with whatever God desires to do in your heart today so your children will have a front-row seat to the grace and goodness of God.

every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.

No one has more potential to influence your child than you.

The first priority of the family should be to establish a quality of relationship with each other that is a reflection of an authentic relationship with God. That may have been what Paul was aiming at when he wrote to the church in Ephesians 5 and 6 about the family.

Most parents can't give their children a lavish inheritance, but every parent will leave a personal legacy.

I could do worse than become my own grandma, or anyone of the strong women who raised us. Our strengths emerged from theirs; we build on their heritage and transform their resilience and competence into our own.