Family Quotes - Page 26

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.