Family Quotes - Page 21

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.