Quotes About Family

The bond of brotherhood is we are sisters and brothers in love.

Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las niñas, cuando ya no era niña y no hacía mucho que había regresado de su viaje de bodas, entró en el cuarto de baño, se puso frente al espejo, se abrió la blusa, se quitó el sostén y se buscó el corazón con la punta de la pistola de su propio padre [...]

No podemos pretender ser los primeros, o los preferidos, sólo somos lo que está disponible, los restos, las sobras, los supervivientes, lo que va quedando, los saldos, y es con eso poco noble con lo que se erigen los más grandes amores y se fundan las mejores familias, de eso provenimos todos, producto de la casualidad y el conformismo, de los descartes y las timideces y los fracasos ajenos

Las amistades y los amores son temporales; el amor de un padre hacia su hijo, y viceversa, es eterno porque se manifiesta mucho después de la muerte de ambos, en lo que han puesto en marcha mientras vivían y cuyo eco resuena en el tiempo.

Disarming and conquering your fear begins with recognizing its presence, accepting it, and taking action to manage it. And fear grips not just those who have lost their jobs, but all those who are part of their circle of influence—spouses, children, parents, and friends.

On the whole, punishments that are productive (work details above and beyond ordinary chores) are the best punishments whenever they can be devised. Ordinary chores ought not to be used as punishments since parents should endeavor to get their children to enjoy helping out in the family.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

More and more, he relied on alcohol to numb himself from the pain of his relationship with Estelle, his anxiety about Meta, the difficulties of writing, and his inability to confront crises that inevitably came his way, such as the deaths of friends and family. Certainly the death of Dean continued to flood him with guilt over his part in encouraging his brother in his career as an aviator and, indeed, selling him the plane that had brought him down.