Family Quotes - Page 24

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

My family came from Ecuador.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.

Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?