Family Quotes - Page 32

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.