Family Quotes - Page 44

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I've worked so hard to keep this family together.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

Adults are just children who earn money.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

What I live and do is music. When I'm not doing that, I'm just kicking back, watching my stocks and bonds and checks coming in the mailbox. I really don't have anything else I do. I may go to a movie or something. It's just family time and things like that.

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

Love without trust is a river without water.

The greatest demand is not to demand anything, and the greatest service of love is not to turn it into a business: "You kiss me, I'll bring flowers to you. I brought flowers to you, why didn't you kiss me?"-your American way.