Quotes About Family

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Bobby - Age 5

Always remember to preserve your pride no matter what. Take pride in yourself and our family name. Never show weakness. Never admit failure..

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

wondered whether the sins of the fathers could ever be washed away ..... or whether a legacy of tainted blood would always colour the lives of the children and the children's children. I didn't come up with any answers

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

I had no idea that "letting go" would be so complicated; that it would sometimes feel liberating and other times more sorrowful and lonely. In the long run, most of it was like standing on the shore, watching your family set sail for America, and they're smiling and waving good-bye, and getting smaller and smaller, but you are still the same size with no one to talk to.

Placing an arm on Billy's seatback, Hunter ran a finger up and down her sleeve. Fourteen years and five babies had made some changes, but his love and passion for her had grown to even greater heights. He ran an appreciative gaze over her form. She was all frocked up in one of her city dresses. This one had blue polka dots with a row of blue bows along the hem. "You look mighty pretty today," he whispered.

The reason that people find it so difficult to enter a healing relationship is that life in our family of origin often required a good deal of unawareness. We overlook what we don't want to see; we keep silent about things that are too difficult to discuss; we respect boundaries even when they put someone into a box. In short, the family is where we learn to deny pain. And denied pain is just another term for suffering. Given

Nothing you really value in your present life—a loving relationship, a good family, worthwhile and rewarding work, and the time to enjoy these things—came about by chance. They grew out of desire and intention.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Yeah, I have a burning issue all right, Dr Weinburger. I wish someone would tell me why it is, with Allie gone and the father count reduced by one, that I can't be Daddy to my little girl anymore.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.

It reminded her of the visceral, uncomprehending emotional closeness that had bound them together over dinners of baked beans and fish fingers eaten at that same table when they were small children.

Finn closed in behind Taylor, an instinct like a mobster's. Family first.

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.

In less than five minutes our mother had taught us to never touch her metal box, and the true meaning of fear. I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.

I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.