Family Quotes - Page 46

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

My family and friends and teammates, just having their support has been unbelievable.

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

My family background was deeply Christian.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.