Quotes About Family

Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian.

He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.

Little boy and little girl.I don't know how old. Sweetest family in the world, of you listen to the old folks around here." Xander was stunned. "And nobody knows what happened to them?" "Some say they high-tailed it to Europe." She raised her eyebrows at him. "Most believe he took them somewhere and killed them. Then took his own life." Dad forced a smile. "Just old rumors," he said.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed.

Christmas was just another workday, just as it had been growing up in Alabama. In a good year back then, little Robert got a handkerchief and an orange. One year his father fashioned a little cart—although come to think of it that was in the spring, not at Christmastime—and the children took turns being pulled around the yard by the family goat. Then he died. His father and the goat.

Home is not only the place you start from, but the place you come back to...where dreams are sustained, hurts healed, where our stories are told.

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.

It is not the love of money that is evil—it is the lack of money that causes evil. It is working at a job we hate that is evil. Working hard yet not earning enough to provide for our families is evil. For some, being deeply in debt is evil. Fighting with people you love over money is evil. Being greedy is evil. Committing criminal or immoral acts to get money is evil. Money by itself is not evil. Money is just money.

We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead.

In any case, many of the rites that became public had in fact originated in the family. A Roman's house was like a temple, and the paterfamilias its hign priest.

Fire was part and parcel of the family Lar, and the hearth was used as an altar to the Penates, the household gods who looked after the store room (penus) or the interior (penitus) of the home where in the past the floor had covered the dead.

For Columella (11, 1, 19) in the first century ad, it was still important to eat in the presence of the servants before the 'Lar of the master and the family hearth'.

There is epigraphic evidence of a temple of the divi on the Palatine in the second century ad. Even though the reigning emperors had no kinship with the Julio-Claudians or the Flavians, their deified predecessors formed a kind of great ancestral family protecting the imperial house, soon qualified as 'divine'. A sort of heaven-sent and cultic solidarity united the living and the dead, as in the ancient religion of hearth and home.

Lamps were not left burning on the table when dinner was over; before going to bed, the mistress of the house - who had a part to play in family priestly duties - saw to it that the house was swept, the lararium and the hearth carefully cleaned.

In a Christian home, there's something special. It's called grace.

The pull of an immoral world outside our homes is as strong as the force that sucks the soft, white stuff into the form. Neutrality on our part as parents will result in failure. Without our intentional effort to defy it, our kids will have no chance but to be thoroughly drawn into those things that we fear most.

The foundation of a good home is a good marriage. It's simply not possible to have a good home without a good marriage.

But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He

father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.