Family Quotes - Page 22

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.