Quotes About Family

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God.

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.