Family Quotes

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this...

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in...

It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to a...

A child deserves to be born of that love, and not by any other means, for “he or she is not somethin...

They believe, along the lines of social networks, that love can be connected or disconnected at the ...

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

The whole world is my family.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkp...

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being o...

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the rel...

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor ...

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as...

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be f...

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companion...

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and ...

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like ...

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precio...

In fact, growing up, I thought there were two types of families:1) Those who need a dictionary to ge...

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they di...

There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptan...

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I ...

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My...

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorc...

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. Wha...

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving...

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having li...

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk ...

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

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death...

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love ...

We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally I've never met a family adviser...

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself ne...

I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, wi...

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education,...

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and se...

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are...

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they canno...

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate i...

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friend...

At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speak...

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worship...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, ...

You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your famil...

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my fa...

My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easie...

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing ...

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question...

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to so...

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings...

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they we...

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictio...

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re b...

Family," she announced. "They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are gi...

Well,' she said, adjusting a pot lid, 'I have my family of origin, which is you and Mom. And then Ja...

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of an...

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends...

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well...

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad ...

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromis...