Family Quotes - Page 12

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values - or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be - to be through her son, to live through her son.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.