Family Quotes - Page 10

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

I come from a poor family.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.