Quotes About Connection

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.

The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

Children are the bridge to heaven.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.

None but a mule denies his family.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.