Quotes About Family

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend

Many of us lead family lives. At most, the members of a family stay together for the duration of a lifetime, often much less. While that fleeting moment of being together still lasts, we should try to remain in perfect harmony with each other, while observing the Dharma as much as possible. Night and day, let us turn our minds toward goodness, love, and compassion.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

My friends and family, especially my mom and dad, are always saying I should smile more.

wish we'd stayed at home if you keep picking on her.' He followed them into the house. 'I'm sorry, Angel. I didn't mean to upset you. It's

They were neither of them in a high sphere of life. Rhoda was a farmer's daughter, the only one among a troop of great rough brothers, some younger, some older than herself. She was not more than twelve years of age, and yet she had been for a year the little mistress of the family, for her mother had long been dead.

and we will have such a splendid row on grandfather's big pond. How nice it will be!" Annie kissed the child, who was her favourite among them all, for he seemed to love her best, and had called her "sister Annie" from the first; but still she said firmly, "We will have a beautiful row when spring comes, Willie; but on Thursday I had much rather stay at home with Rhoda!

Oh, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most

Only his step awoke her – not that it was loud, for Giovanni went on tiptoe. There was no special reason for it, except that he was her son.

After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family, we saluted the happy morn with the Hell and Hades of a row because I wouldn't get up and go to early service, my sister being quite determined that even if I didn't get up. I shouldn't sleep.

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

I do not wish to listen to people denouncing their parents.

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Mrs. Jakes had sent up stew and apple pie.

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees.

I still close my eyes and go home . . . I can always draw from that.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words