Family Quotes - Page 27

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block."

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

I like to be home every night with my family.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.