Family Quotes

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Family over friends, because real friends are family

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.