Family Quotes - Page 20

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.