Family Quotes - Page 5

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

Do not force the religion on your family. Show them the beauty of the Religion through your own practice.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.