Quotes About Bonding

I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.

Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.

The most important things that children want from you are your time and love.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

Being able to travel with family and friends so they can cheer me on as I play is something it's hard to put a price on; my point is simply that for all of this, there is indeed a price.

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

No one person should be forced to keep everything to themselves. Not everything. The mind is small, the heart, weak.

Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college teacher. And in their midst, rocking and smiling, sat the little old lady who had brought them up with a song on her lips and a lantern in her hand.

Every day, when you got that first animal, I didn't care what else happened. As long as you got that first one, it was a good day." - Jeff Popwich

That hen became our pet. The kids fed her Cheetos. We even competed to name her. Beyoncé is not what I'd have chosen, but we'd agreed before setting out Monopoly that the winner got naming rights, and Thomas had a hotel on Park Place.

I wonder if maybe death does that -- turns strangers into friends for a few minutes, or an hour, or maybe even a whole day.

The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

I shoved my feet under the sheets and against her thigh until she fell off the bed onto the floor. That was another thing she had taught me: that when you love someone, you must jokingly mistreat them, just a little. It makes it easier when you leave them, or they die.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

The joke in our family was that when I made an out, he'd move to a new location. If I got a hit, he'd stay where he was. We laughed about that a lot because I said that he probably sat in every seat in County Stadium because I made a lot of outs in the big leagues.

When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I would pick up the balls for them when they'd play, and then sometimes I'd play with them, but not very often.

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.