Quotes About Family

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

My mother thinks that what keeps me going is a well of spitefulness.' ... 'I think she's right. I can feel it right here.

Her [Valerie Landry's] mentor in med school had reminded her more than once that doctors got even less time than families had to deal with patients dying. Someone died and the relatives went off by themselves and collapsed, but you still had the rest of your shift to get through.

Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless privilege which costs nothing but love.

and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you've lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything.

Our family is involved in our life's journey long before we are born and long after we die. Some of our family is connected by blood and others only by love.

poverty in a family of twelve children.

Regardless of the size, grandeur, or expense, what makes a Christmas celebration significant is the heart, meaning, and soul behind the holiday.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare child only 13 million.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Women want their husbands to be the spiritual leaders of their homes and to pray with them.

If you are a child of divorce, I would encourage you to buy and read The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce. It will help you understand your feelings and begin to deal with anger and conflict in a healthier manner.

Most lists of priorities should look something like this: God—seeking and serving Him personally Spouse Children (if you have any) Church—seeking and serving God together with fellow believers Extended family and special friends Work and career Hobbies and other interests

The answer for the iniquity of dominance is to repent of it, forgive your family for their part in it, and to submit this area of your life to Jesus. We grow up bent because someone was in disobedience to the right or "straight" way. Once we submit the bent area of our lives to God and His word, He will teach us the right way, and we will be changed.

A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social-networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social-networking sites.

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.